[sdiy] Front panel design philosophies

[rsdio at audiobanshee.com]

On Apr 25, 2015, at 11:49 PM, mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, rsdio at audiobanshee.com wrote:
>> What are some common spacings for the 3.5 mm jacks? I searched and found
>> a comment that one particular person is not happy with the 20 mm spacing
>> because it is too tight, but that only allows about 6 jacks vertically.
> 
> If you want to build a 2HP module and have jacks in it at all, that means
> 10.16mm horizontal spacing should two such modules be mounted side by
> side.  It takes careful selection of the jacks because many have bodies
> wider than that, and you probably wouldn't want to make the vertical
> spacing equally tight, but it is a thing many designers do, and the market
> tolerates it.
> 
> -- 
> Matthew Skala

Thanks. I hadn't thought about looking at it from the horizontal spacing.

I do note that Doepfer only seem to have one product that is 2HP (A180-2). Otherwise, 4HP seems to be the minimum. But I guess 4HP would naturally have 20.32 mm spacing, horizontally, which is tight enough that some would complain.

Brian