PLAN B analog blog

All,

Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
A photo has been posted:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PLAN_B_analog_blog/photos/album/630816539/pic/1562852986/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=41&dir=asc

The circuit, the module functionality and the price remains unchanged.
  These improvements were put in play to increase our production
throughput, decrease the potential for field failures with the
elimination of the 12 hand-soldered wires and addresses the continual
Cliff jack availability issue which has shut our production line down
in the past, most notably last summer at the worst possible time
imaginable:  two weeks before the ELFs were to be released when Cliff
announced they were halting worldwide production for three months.  

Freed from those constraints I am confident the M15 availability will
flourish.

- P

Just out of curiosity, is there a philosophical reason why you're
sticking to through-hole rather than robosuffing with SMT?

-Sean

--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:
>
> All,
> 
> Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
> Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
> elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
> A photo has been posted:
> 
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PLAN_B_analog_blog/photos/album/630816539/pic/1562852986/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=41&dir=asc

> 
> The circuit, the module functionality and the price remains unchanged.
>   These improvements were put in play to increase our production
> throughput, decrease the potential for field failures with the
> elimination of the 12 hand-soldered wires and addresses the continual
> Cliff jack availability issue which has shut our production line down
> in the past, most notably last summer at the worst possible time
> imaginable:  two weeks before the ELFs were to be released when Cliff
> announced they were halting worldwide production for three months.  
> 
> Freed from those constraints I am confident the M15 availability will
> flourish.
> 
> - P
>

Thomson Reuters

--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:
>
> All,
> 
> Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
> Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
> elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
> A photo has been posted:
> 
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PLAN_B_analog_blog/photos/album/630816539/pic/1562852986/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=41&dir=asc

Makes sense but it's going to make this kind of thing darn near
impossible.
http://squiggletronics.com/files/temp/200901/synthA-024.jpg

Peter,

Nice. 

Which jacks are you using to replace the cliff sockets?

Kind regards, Randal


--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure 
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:

> All,
> Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
> Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
> elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
> A photo has been posted:

The same ones on the M31 and M32  In fact, everything we release new
now on will be using these guys.  Much more reliable, and their
vertical mounting affords flatter modules.

As time goes on, I will continue to phase them into our sustaining
product line. 

- P



--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "randaleem" <randaleem@...>
wrote:

>
> Peter,
> 
> Nice. 
> 
> Which jacks are you using to replace the cliff sockets?
> 
> Kind regards, Randal
> 
> 
> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure 
> that out)" <peter@> wrote:
> > All,
> > Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
> > Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
> > elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
> > A photo has been posted:
>