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Subject: Re: [motm] VCO calibration nightmare

From: Charles Stella <cstella@...>
Date: 2000-07-06

If you have a vise to hold the connector steady it helps. Tin your bare
cable ends. Heat the U shaped ground sleeve a bit and put a little pool
of solder there. Tin the tip connector as well. Solder the ground of
your cable to the sleeve. Once it is cool and stable solder the tip. I
hope this helps. Charles.

Thomas Hudson wrote:

>
> I built two 300's the last two days. When I went to calibrate them,
> I knew something was wrong. The 300 I had previously built and
> calibrated wasn't tracking correctly, and I couldn't tune the
> two new ones, the trimers were all the way to one extreme and
> still didn't track.
>
> Then I found the culprits. I had recently built new patch cables
> using neutrik connectors. When I pulled these out and used some
> older cables everything started working perfectly.
>
> I used a DVM and got a resistance measurement between the tip
> and sleeve.
>
> So obviously I don't quite understand how to assemble the
> cables correctly using the neutrik connectors. They don't
> seem to have a good place to solder (especially the ground
> connection), so I assumed the locking action of the cam
> pushed the cable down to make the connection.
>
> Anyone else using these connectors? Any tips on how to
> assemble them?
>
> Tomy
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