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Subject: Re: Don't need to skinkin' wire!

From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...
Date: 1999-06-16

Around July 6

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Bradley <daveb@...>
To: motm@onelist.com <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 2:07 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] Don't need to skinkin' wire!


>From: "Dave Bradley" <daveb@...>
>
>So could you estimate for us a little more plainly, when could you ship 420
>kits sans coax, versus if we wait for coax?
>
>Rocket Man
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Schreiber [mailto:synth1@...]
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 12:08 AM
>> To: MOTM listserv
>> Subject: [motm] Don't need to skinkin' wire!
>>
>>
>> From: "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...>
>>
>> Some of you have expressed interest in '420 kits without all of the
wires.
>> Specifically, the RG-174 coax is what is missing.
>>
>> So, if you want a kit missing the 4 little coax (there will be 1 long
coax
>> in there,
>> but that is spoken for) send me an email.
>>
>> BTW: just finished 5 min. ago calibrating and testing the
>> finished product.
>> I am
>> building a '110 so I can make noise. It self-oscillates in LP
>> mode, and acts
>> like a 4-octave VCO!
>> I got it to track whithin 1hz from 50Hz to 800Hz. Then it falls apart
>> because there is
>> no sophisticated circuitry as in the VCOs. But still sort of
>> fun!. The max.
>> oscillation freq.
>> on the 1 prototype was 17Khz. Dave can zap squirrels as hoped for.
>>
>> The reversing attenuator is much fun to play with, although I did a minor
>> boo-boo on the pcb
>> layout and you have to "cross" wires up to the front panel but other than
>> that it works 100%.
>>
>> Lastly: I can get Bourns to make up cermet pots, like the blue conductive
>> plastic ones in the VCO/EG
>> with the solder lugs. This will releive terror in the heart of some folks
>> bending those itty bitty wires.
>> Of course, they want 8 weeks lead time! But the price is no different
than
>> the pcb pots, so guessing
>> I can sell then at some later date I'll order some tomorrow.
>>
>> Paul S.
>>
>>
>>
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