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AW: AW: [Doepfer_a100] A-198 Trautonium / ribbon controller - output voltages

2019-01-07 by yahoo@doepfer.de

Hi Andy,

you find my answers written inline.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer

> Hi Dieter,
>
> Thanks.  Are the outputs always a positive voltage?

The Gate and the pressure CV are always positive.
The position CV becomes slightly negative (about -1V with the scale control
fully CW) in the Hold Off mode when the position sensor is not touched.

> The Behringer Model D manual states that exceeding the rated
> input voltages can damage it.
>
> I have no way of knowing if that's true, because I haven't seen
> the schematics of that either, but I'd rather not rely on it
> being wrong, or on me not turning the scale knobs past 4, so I
> want to make up some fixed value attenuators, or similar, to make sure.
>
> Are the outputs direct from an op amp, or is there a resistor
> between each op amp and the output socket - or is it more
> complicated than that?

There are 10k potentiometers as attenuators at both CV outputs. The output
sockets are connected to the center terminals of the potentiometers.

> - Andy

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