[sdiy] Learned a few things today...

[Scott Gravenhorst]

You know, I've had a similar problem with cheap toggles, probably also from 
Jameco.  For me, it was that soldering time had to be carefully monitored 
else things inside the switch seemed to melt.  I had some switches simply 
refuse to move after soldering wires to their lugs.  Lesson learned.  Cheap 
mechanical parts are no bargain if they will ultimately force you to open 
the project and replace them - with the good ones...

James Patchell <patchell at cox.net> wrote:
>I learned that you cannot have too many mixers in your modular.  I have 
>four 4 in 1 out mixers...and that is not enough.  The more mixers...the 
>merrier...think I am going to add about 6 more mixers (these will work with 
>both control voltages as well as audio...).
>
>The second thing I learned is more of a re-enforcement to something I 
>learned just a bit ago...cheap toggle switches suck.  I could not figure 
>out why something wasn't working correctly on the Mikado...again...it was 
>those damn cheap Jameco toggle switches that were causing the problem.  It 
>will be a while yet before I can order good switches.  This month is 
>property tax month...and they went up quite a bit....I guess somebody has 
>to pay off California's debt....
>
>
>         -Jim
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