[sdiy] uA726 temp setting

harrybissell harrybissell at prodigy.net
Fri Mar 18 08:50:40 CET 2005


'scuse me  (whle I kiss this guy)

but wasn't the Sonic Six originally a Musonics (not Moog) design ???

So I'd expect it to be different.

H^) harry

WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:

> Hello Kevin,
>
> Not that the Sonic Six VCO's are at all related, but the EML101 also uses the
> single transistors in the ua726 in their cheesy-but-effective expo converters
> (instead of using them as a differential pair).  They have Pin 6 (the
> temperature control pin) connected to +15 volts via a 1% 221K resistor, and they
> don't have any sort of trimmer for fine tuning the temperature adjustment.  It
> seems to me that you'd just need to get things in the ballpark, unless Moog were
> being overly clever in their design for some unexplained reason.  Were they
> really just trying to save a few mA of supply current?  I hope not...  Maybe
> they included the trimmer for those potential customers living in arctic or
> equatorial zones?
>
> Michael B.




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