[sdiy] Speeding up synth wiring -- ideas?

[James Patchell]

Well, here is the solution I came up with.  I experience the same 
problem.  The synth described on this page took me about 40 hours to build, 
from a box of parts, until it was running...which is considerably shorts 
than the 200+ hours it has taken on some of the projects I did...

http://www.oldcrows.net/~patchell/synthmodulesII/index.html#Modular_Analog_Synthesizer

The pictures do it much more justice than I can describe...however, be 
advised, the materials for that project ran about $2500....I considered it 
worth it...I am still, after several years, still wiring up some projects 
done the "old" way.


At 03:38 PM 3/5/2005 -0800, Bret Truchan wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I just got a "real" job (mixed blessing!) and my copious free time isn't 
>so copious anymore.  So, it seems like a good time to ask this:
>
>I seem to spend a huge amount of time dealing with ribbon cable, which I 
>use to connect my potentiometers, switches, etc to my PCB boards.  There 
>must be a better way.  I've tried, sucessfully, using flat .1 cable in 
>pre-cut lengths, but there's something I don't like about it.. besides 
>that it's expensive.
>
>Although I don't *mind* sitting in front of the TV, stripping and cutting 
>wires for hours, are there any shortcuts I can take to speed things up?
>Redesigning my modules to use PCB mount potentiometers and switches isn't 
>really feasible.  Is there any way to throw money at the problem? For 
>instance, does any company sell... like... pre-cut, pre-stripped ribbon 
>cable? (Or twisted-pair style cable?)
>
>Thanks!
>- Bret
>

         -Jim
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