PLAN B analog blog

I know the website says May 2008, but any word on when the noisebug
online store goes up?

--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> 
> What a week, glad it's over.  Our new staff (of which I'm very pleased
> with, btw) completed their first lot of modules to Noisebug (shipping
> was easy as all we have to do is take them downstairs!!) a lot of 18
> Model 15's - the first made in our new home.  The good (great!) news
> is only two had problems first pass into test.  Not that easy to do
> considering two of these guys had never done this before and of all
> the products we biuld, along with the M14 and the M28, these are the
> toughest.
> 
> Rack cases:  We've made the arrangements for a closed system - a metal
> box similar to that everyone else is doing.  These types have their
> application.  but for those who mount the rack boxes into an
> enclosure, it's always seems a bit over kill and who's paying for
> that...the end user. So this alternative - rails only, connecting to a
> central power unit - seems like a very good way to go if the box isn't
> needed.
> 
> Regarding the use of a switched supply and one of our members recently
> sent me some information about this offline which I am addressing here
> - if we go this route, the switched supply will act as the central
> power distribution, yet on board on each power strip there will be
> power conditioning and linear regulation which will handle the
> electrical noise/interference issues sometimes attributed to
> improperly designed switched power systems.  VCO resets will not be
> effected once the power hits the bussrails.  Also, individual returns
> from each connector (ground will not be daisychained as they are in
> other Euro racks, each will have it's own patch to the source) will
> keep noise generated by the modules themselves from effecting one
> another (possibly infecting is a better word).  This covers electrical
> noise.  That which is generated by EMI should not be an issue as the
> central power unit can be placed far enough from the modules
> themselves and when placed in a faraday cage (metal box) any radiation
> from the main PSU - the switcher - will not be an issue.  It shouldn't
> be anyway.
> 
> That's it for now.  I'll be attending Bebe's memorial service this
> afternoon and will be filing a report on how that went on this blog
> later in the weekend. Leonard will be showing clips from Forbidden
> Planet, taped interviews with Bebe from throughout the years and will
> be playing audio from that piece, WIlliams Mix and her last piece
> Mixed Emotions. I sure it'll be quite an unforgettable memorial
> (pardon the pun!).  
> 
> - P
>