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Just thought this was worth mentioning. I'm not really blaming anyone. I figured this info 
might help someone when they ship.

I recently bought and had a second hand Doepfer G6 case containing modules shipped to 
me.

The packing seemed quite responsible and while I didn't request the modules to be 
shipped mounted I didn't request they not be mounted and I've been shipped more or less 
similar racks from Enport (former U.S. Doepfer distributer) and Analogue Systems with 
mounted modules.

Anyway the point of this post is a Model 15 VCO in the case did not survive unscathed. 
Nothing else was damaged.

First off the expo board was bouncing around loose in the case. On my module at least it's 
deninitely not firmly attached enough to travel. I'd probably tape it if I were to transport it 
to a gig or something.

More critically the 1v/o Freq pot and the top Freq VC pot had their connector boards 
cracked off from the body of the pot. In other words the connectors were still soldered to 
the main board but cracked off from the body of the pot.

nick
http://technopop.info/ndkent/

Hi.


sorry to hear about the shipping damage - that's always a major 
drag.  

The expo board can be just reinserted.  there are directions opn 
how to do that here:

http://www.buzzclick-music.com/model_15.html

click on the link that says: 

CLICK HERE FOR EXPO BOARD INSERSION GUIDELINES

Just do whgat it tell ya.

Just as a note, the new Model 15 boards no lnger use the 
separate expo board.  it was done that way origianlly because 
when i was using the MAT-02 expo converter matched pairt, i 
needed to pot the whole ess in expoxy to get the VCO stable to 
my liking.  After finding the LInear Systems LS312 however, I 
found I didn't have to do that.

If you're worried aboiut that boad fallig out, simply desolder the 
connector end on the mian board and hard solder the boardlette 
in place.  make sure however to place some insulating material 
underneath - electrical tape will suffice.  this wil keep any 
componets under the expo board from shorting to the leads on 
the expo board.

On the pots:  by the 1v/oct Freq pot - do you mean the trimer or do 
you mean the course tuning pot - the faceplate control?  In any 
event, you can get the Alpha pots at futurlec.com.  go here:

http://www.futurlec.com/Potentiometers.shtml

You need 10K linears.

if this is indeed the 1v/oct trimmer  that sits behind the main 
frequency pot, that is a Mouser part number 72-T18-5K.

- P




--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "nicholas_kent" 
<nicholas_kent@...> wrote:
>
> Just thought this was worth mentioning. I'm not really blaming 
anyone. I figured this info 
> might help someone when they ship.
> 
> I recently bought and had a second hand Doepfer G6 case 
containing modules shipped to 
> me.
> 
> The packing seemed quite responsible and while I didn't 
request the modules to be 
> shipped mounted I didn't request they not be mounted and I've 
been shipped more or less 
> similar racks from Enport (former U.S. Doepfer distributer) and 
Analogue Systems with 
> mounted modules.
> 
> Anyway the point of this post is a Model 15 VCO in the case did 
not survive unscathed. 
> Nothing else was damaged.
> 
> First off the expo board was bouncing around loose in the 
case. On my module at least it's 
> deninitely not firmly attached enough to travel. I'd probably tape 
it if I were to transport it 
> to a gig or something.
> 
> More critically the 1v/o Freq pot and the top Freq VC pot had 
their connector boards 
> cracked off from the body of the pot. In other words the 
connectors were still soldered to 

> the main board but cracked off from the body of the pot.
> 
> nick
> http://technopop.info/ndkent/
>