SV: Moog Transistor Matcher Questions

[Karl Helmer Torvmark]

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From: Magnus Danielson <cfmd at swipnet.se>
To: <8brain at spiritone.com>
Cc: <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 1:28 AM
Subject: Re: Moog Transistor Matcher Questions


> A friend of mine, he admitts he is not very good at electronics, but
> he at least have a pretty good hand with a soldering iron and knows
> the value of using the right stuff. Anyway, resistors have allways
> been somewhat of an annoyance to him since he is partly colorblind, so
> in order to read the color rings he uses his Fluke - right, he
> MEASURES the resistance. That's default with him.

Well, he's not the only one. I've been doing this since my school days too. Way too
often, resistors wound up in the wrong drawer... Most often, you got 10R instead of
10K, or something like that.

I have some problems with colors too (at least on resistors with brown background, blue
are better), so I just used my Fluke. I am a bit lazy too, and I found it a lot quicker than
trying to read the color code. I do a measurement by reflex now, whenever I pick a
resistor out of the drawer...

SMD resistors are worse, but they have text markings which are readable using a magnifying
glass (at least the 1209 and 0805 variants I've used - with smaller ones you are out of luck).

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Karl H.