It seems to Will and I that the only real advantage, aside from less expense, of building the LVCO without vernier (counting) dials appears to be taking up a little less space - we found counting dials that are only a little bigger than the standard MOTM TYCOs. But taking up less space looks to us like it isn't very useful because, assuming you include all of them, we can't see a way to possibly fit the controls into fewer than 4 Units.
The big advantage of the verniers, of course, is the counting. The intended Frequency pots are fancy, 10-turn units, and we figure it will be good to have a read-out of the turn.
The four-unit LVCO panel assumes really, really dinky pots for a bunch of the other controls. If you want to avoid the super-dinky pots, you move into the 5-Unit design which uses the semi-dinky knobs - the ones that appear on lots of Tellun designs. Then there's no real reason to use the small counting dials 'cause there's space for the bigger ones.
But then there's the completely stupid 7U design... ahem... <shuffles his feet> <looks at the ceiling>
We ordered up verniers from Mouser a few days ago... so maybe this note is just the beginning of a huge rationalization for allowing my OCD to run rampant as we stagger toward implementing the 7U design.
<shrug>
--- In ModularSynthPanels@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Laity <synthetic@...> wrote:
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> Any update on this panel? I vote for a version without verniers if
> possible.
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> On Jun 1, 2009, at 9:30 PM, Scott Deyo wrote:
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> > I'm doing something, but I'm not sure what yet. Maybe a poll will
> > happen, but not for a little while yet....
> >
> > Scott Deyo
> > The Bridechamber
> > contact@...
> > http://www.bridechamber.com
> > Jealous Edison Record Kompany
> > http://www.jealousedison.com
> >
> >
> > On May 29, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Jan-Ahrent Czmok wrote:
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> >> On 27.05.2009, at 04:18, Scott Deyo wrote:
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> >>> The 'ills have some designs they've been working on:
> >>> http://dragonflyalley.com/constructionJHLivingVCO.htm
> >>>
> >>> Scott Deyo
> >> Will you do a panel run for this design ? i got the living vco kit
> >> with the verniers and really like the design..
> >>
> >> --jan
> >>
> >>
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