Hmmm... It's not a dry climate here in Montreal at all, and I have no
carpeting, but that certainly sounds like my problem.
I was using a 35w Weller and my only complaint was that the tip seems
∗enormous∗ for pcb work, but its possible that I could have fried it.
I guess I could swap the vactrol for 3 with the vactrol for one of the
others and see what happens. To the workshop I go!
Thanks to all for the info - I don't feel as inept now. :)
On 28-Oct-05, at 8:52 PM, Adam Schabtach wrote:
> I killed vactrol #3 when I built my second 410, and I was using a
> temp-control Weller station at the time. Paul told me that the things
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> sometimes be damaged by static electricity. I assembled mine in a very
> dry
> climate in a room with a carpeted floor, so draw your own conclusions.
> :-)
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> The symptom in that case was that filter #3 passed audio only very
> faintly.
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> I was having a run of bad luck then, I think. I assembled my third 300
> VCO
> at around the same time, and I managed to wire its output jacks wrong.
> These
> mistakes were made after I'd assembled ~25 MOTM kits over the past few
> years
> with zero problems.
>
> --Adam
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: groovyshaman [mailto:groovyshaman@...]
>> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:43 PM
>> To: motm@yahoogroups.com; Mike Marsh
>> Subject: Re: [motm] Re: To those that have built a '410....
>>
>> A vactrol was my problem back when I built my 410. I held the iron
>> to a
>> leg
>> for too long and killed it. I promptly tossed the iron and went out
>> and
>> bought a Weller WSD80 station. :)
>>
>> -George
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