[sdiy] VCO4d

[Peter Snow]

Hi Darren,

I finally received my Futurlec order on Friday, Feb 6th 2004 with two items missing.  I made the
order on Nov 22nd 2003.  I hope you have better luck with yours :)

Peter

> Shokwave wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Well, the RXCV board is all soldered up, but until I wire up the panel I can't test it...soooo I'm
> moving on to the VCO4d. The pdf is outdated (i.e. wrong), but the web page version of the
> schematic is badly rendered (poor resolution) and very difficult to read. Does anyone know if the
> parts list on the webpage is OK?
> 
> My Jameco order arrived last week. UPS suxors. Anyway, the good thing is that the $25 certificate
> of origin seems to have negated the usual nasty UPS brokerage fee. Of course, Mouser provided the
> self-same certificate of origin for FREE, so I can't see why I'd ever order from Jameco again.
> 
> I have put in an order to Futerlec; they were the only people offering value packs of everything I
> wanted (except mylar caps), so I figured what the hey, if it takes a while, so what? The price was
> right. I ordered grab bags of 1/4watt resistors, ceramic and electrolytic caps, IC's, and maybe
> even some more IC sockets...can't recall.
> 
> I am about to put another order in to Mouser; header pins, molex pins (forgot those last time,
> grr), TO-5 sockets (I wanna do some hit-or-miss...er, swapping), some pots, some mylar caps...is
> there anything special I should grab from them while I'm stocking up the home workbench?
> 
> Anyone from Canada ordered from Allied lately? Are they cool? They have NSL opto-isolators, hehe.
> 
> -Darren