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Subject: Re: [motm] 510

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
Date: 2004-10-17

> Also, the manual says the 68K resitors (7 of
> them) are green, gray, black: that should be BLUE, gray, black.

I have been manually correcting this, reprinted 30 new manuals today so that
newer kits will be corrected.

> My switch pot is a little scratchy, too. I'll see if that works itself
> out; if not, I'll ping Paul.

Errr...he means the ROOT/POWER/UNITY rotary switch.

OK, it's NOT scratchy. If you are running audio through it, and you apply
pressure to the knob, the what will happen is you will get "bounce" like in a
pushbutton (the 2 metal sliding contacts scrape, there are <100US disconnects
between the contacts, and the AD538 freaks out). So...be aware that even when
you briskly rotate the switch, there is a short time that some of the ∗12∗
contacts are "in flight" (not touching anything) and the AD538 is going "What's
up with THAT??!?" and you may hear a noise burst. When the switch it sitting
there it's happy and no noise. Ain't analog grand?

Paul S.