ASM is Done!!

[Troy Sheets]

> 
> Hey all,  I finished up my ASM last night.  Powered it up and it all worked!! 
>  No smoke, no fires, just oscillations..  There are a few things though..   
> three main things I'd like to sort out....  
> 1  When the res (Q) is at around 95% - 100% and I spin the cutoff freq knob 
> all the way there is one little point in the rotation (around 45% or 11 
> oclock)where there is noise almost like distortion or the type of fuzz that a 
> bad pot would cause .  But its not the pot becuase this only happnes when the 
> Q is at around 90% or above. ?

Do you have a signal going into the filter?  It is easy for me to drive
a signal too hard into the filter and it starts to really distort with high
Q.

> 2  Last night both oscillators worked fine..  This morning one doesn't make a 
> peep, and the other is fine  So I'm guessing something happened when I cut 
> the power last night or when I turned it on today.  Any thoughts on this?

I have found a brief chant and pagan dance will get flakey oscillators
working.  You think I am joking.... 

-troy

> 3  The inital pulse widt knob is only active in a narrow band from around 10 
> oclock to about 2 oclock, in which the PW does change, but Id like to have 
> full spectrum available here........
> 
> Thanks for your help over the past year with this thing....  that first 
> wavelength that hit my ear drum made it all worth it,
> ~Steve
> 

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