[sdiy] Monotron Schematic

[Tony Kalomiris]

The Moog Prodigy had not only the schematic but complete theory of operation and tune-up procedure.
Guess they figured people are too dumb to bother with that stuff today - risk electrocution and law suits or to sell them separate service manuals.
The schematics that came with my dad's Telefunken 70's stereo is what got me into electronics - that and my his soldering prowess (DIN to RCA)- also remember my Realistic DX-302 communications receiver had one, which I  used to change the narrow filter to 12 khz for wide band AM.

I wholeheartedly vote for including schematics with user manuals - think of it as art for the uninitiated.

Tony Kalomiris


On 2010-11-05, at 3:40 PM, Senso wrote:

> Maybe someone at Korg got fed up from all the DIYers asking for it. :-)
> 
> Another one I can think of was the Polyvox. It had it included in the manual also. The only drawback was the fact that the whole thing was in Russian, but so what .
> I seem to remember there were a few Crumar or Siel synths that came with schematics too.
> 
>> Very unusual..
>> 
>> Schematics generally only appear in service manuals that I have helped
>> translate 20+ years ago... and made very unavailable to the public. this new
>> attitude speaks volumes and we may see others react. this is remember the
>> first purely analogue synth in 25 years by a big boy company imho. The
>> exception of including schematics that comes to mind is the Roland SH-101 in
>> that they put the schematics in the user manual. there are others as well
>> but few and far between ...
> 
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