Well - that may be, but Your 3U version certainly saves space. And that's something we're running out of. I think there are advantages to both. Really, the motivation for our version was to get the jacks across the bottom and so their control knobs above them. We're using the smaller, PKES60B1/4 ALCO knobs for the nine input controls, after all.
An advantage to this layout is also that most of the knobs and jakcs and LEDs line up horizontally on the standard MOTM grid. If one increased the panel to 5U, you could get them to align vertically with other modules as well... but that seems silly to us. In my experience, its horizontal alignment that has the greatest visual impact.
But also thank you for correcting our design - we've altered it now to accommodate the 1-1/2" diameter of the switch with its solder lugs by moving it down and to the right side. On our diagram, that 1-1/2" is represented now by a dotted line. And we made the corrections you very graciously pointed out to the switches, etc.
I can't figure out how to attach the drawing to this posting...
I'll mess around with it a bit.
Thanks Scott J!
Bill (and Will)
--- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, Scott Juskiw <scott@...> wrote:
>
> But your 4U layout will probably win over more people in a "battle of
> the panels". People seem to prefer the larger knob versions. I can
> smell another vote coming on...
>
> On 21-Apr-09, at 5:49 PM, wjhall11 wrote:
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> > Oh - I accidentally sent the note I'd jotted to Scott Deyo about a
> > possible one-off panel for Will and me to the whole list. Sorry
> > about that. But I was going to mention it to the list as well
> > eventually. Scott Juskiw's mods and feature set are great. And
> > Will and I had looked the IS/CV over just the day before to try to
> > get a really good grasp on the combo module. We hadn't realized
> > that Jurgen had even put a lot of notes about combining the two
> > implementations on his site... we hadn't looked at the page for - oh
> > - three or four months or so. We'll start a construction page, but
> > we won't get to building ours until Scott D has time to make the
> > panel.
>