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Subject: 800 LED & GATE mod success

From: mark scetta <n0nspaz@...>
Date: 2001-04-23

one change worth noting to the manual pushbutton gate-cum-LED mod
http://www.users.qwest.net/~daveb2/images/MOTM-800_switchmod.gif :

i combined both mods on a small daughterboard. the LED wasn't directly
hooked up to the manual gate switch, they both were interfacing with the
800 in different places. and i wanted the LED to be as bright when the
gate was triggered manually as with an external CV. so instead of feeding
the LED opamps from the 800 OUT + or GATE jacks, i hooked this up to the
junction of D3 and Q2. this way, the LED also sees when i've pushed the
manual gate button (which is connected to the junction of D1 & Q1).

i used a momentary pushbutton which triggers the ADS stages when pushed and
held, and skips to the Release stage when let go. so variable gate timings
are possible by holding the button for varying lengths of time.

cheers
and thanks moe
mark