[sdiy] getting started

Tim Ressel madhun2001 at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 23 02:01:06 CEST 2002


Yo,

According to UL, anything 40.4V or above is high 
voltage.

--TR

--- patchell <patchell at silcom.com> wrote:
>     Good thing you decided to not build a Tesla
> Coil... ;^)
> 
>     I guess a good question would be, what is
> considered to be High
> Voltage?
> 
>     Normal supply rails are generally +/- 12 or +/-
> 15 volts.
> 
>     Assuming your school won't think you will get
> electrocuted by those
> levels, I would just do an ASM-1
> 
>    
> http://home.swipnet.se/cfmd/synths/friends/stopp/
> 
>     If you are limited to something like +/- 5
> volts, you could
> re-engineer the ASM-1 to work at these
> levels...which would probably
> make the project more interesting anyway.
> 
> Pot Synth wrote:
> 
> >    It's comming to the time where I have to do an
> project for my
> > electronics course, I thought that a synth would
> be the perfect
> > choice...
> >
> > Could anyone possibly point me in the right
> direction for a good
> > beginner synth which uses the lowest power supply
> possible, preferably
> > not a kit because the project has to be my own
> work. It needs a low
> > power supply because my college wouldn't let me
> use a high voltage one
> > for insurance reasons. Thanks.
> 
> --
>  -Jim
> ------------------------------------------------
> * Visit:http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/
> *-----------------------------------------------
> *I'm sure glad Merry Christmas comes just once a
> year
> * -Yogi Yorgensen
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> 


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