About this deal
My first hunch was if I could possibly just bridge the connections for the override button so it’s always pressed — unfortunately this simple solution didn’t work. Incidentally the 20inch aerial lenses above have soft internal coatings, don't attempt to clean one. Next was on to M-22 and a few other deep sky objects to see how image scale was compared to my Pentax 12x50 PCF WP II's.
It conveniently can be broken down into the eight output modules (which each have onboard rectifier and caps) and the two transformers. I can bridge a couple of the channels on each side (into 8 Ohms only) and still have lots of channels leftover for a multiway system. The white jumper wire on the left connects the square capacitor output to the inverted input of the bridged amp. Some resoldering later, and now we have a cable with “left” output wired to pin 2, “right” output to pin 3, and ground remains connected to pin 1.Officially this is done with the CNXBRMO module, and officially only half the channels can be bridged… but unofficially you can bridge the outputs with just a simple modified cable, and it works on all channels.
My next target was M-27, (which was more difficult to find this time), and at 16x this also looks nicer at this image scale. For the 12V trigger I used a basic voltage divider circuit with 100k and 33k ohm resistors to step down to around 3V to safely input to a GPIO pin on the ESP8266.Once just after the full moon was up and a second time right as the full moon was pretty much right overhead. I was planning on building another two subwoofers with the same Dayton drivers, bringing my total to four subwoofers. Most views like this are only had through 20x80's and I could hand hold the Pentax 16x60's for a very long time without getting tired !
The Stoat is generally brown with white under but goes all -white in the winter except for the tail which is black as if dipped in ink.I know this is an old post, but I wanted to update my inquiry from a few months ago asking if I can use XLR->dual-RCA splitters from my pre-amp (Yamaha CX-A5100) directly into the 16x60 amp to achieve bridged channels without any sort of adapter or modifications to the amp - and the answer is YES! I bridged 5 channels and don't see this as an issue for home theater where it is very very rare to power more than 3 channels at full power. I'm looking to do the exact same thing as posted in this thread - bridge 10 of the channels to create a 5x200W output for the mains and use the other 6 for 2 rear surround and 4 Atmos speakers.