MOTM

While you're updating the manuals, you might want to add a warning (however
obvious it seems to me in hindsight) to prevent people from making the same
bonehead move I did last night. I was tightening the panel nuts for the
pcb-mounted pots on my 300, and got a little overzealous and (look of
embarrassment), ripped one of the pots right off the board. Of course the
leads stayed put, but the pot came right off. Luckily I had an extra from
another unbuilt module, but that one will need replacing when I get around
to it. Anyway, that's a $7.00+ mistake that I hope no one else will have to
make. 

I'm still not quite sure what happened, as the pot was flush to the PCB, and
I thought I had the board and bracket and everything tightly assembled as
spelled out in the instructions, but alas... Anyway, I hope others learn
from my mistake.

-Chris


On 7/28/05 12:04 AM, "Paul Schreiber" <synth1@...> wrote:

> Ok, boys and girls, it's time to finally ship the MOTM-485!
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> The first 30 kits will ship from me while Paul H. is goofing off in Canada on
> his "vacation". Which of course means none of the kits he has will ship until
> he 
> returns around Aug 10th.
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> Meanwhile, the 2 of us have looked ahead and have placed parts orders for all
> the kits so that they will be in stock, enough to last until December. So, we
> should be able to hold < 1 week ship time for the rest of the year.
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> The '485 kit has a CDROM, it's still very much a 'work-in-progress' (the
> CDROM). 
> Later in the year, much content will be added, I'm going to re-edit all the
> manuals to clarify things like via holes, and add some color pictures and
> audio 
> files. Those with the current CDROM can sell it as 'vintage' on eBay.
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> I have '300 kits in stock, but the '310s are waiting for the tempco resistors.
> KRL Bantry is falling behind in orders (they laid off too many folks last
> year, 
> paying for it this year) but the order is arriving Friday and I turned right
> around and bought 150 more.
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> I will have these 30 all shipped by Wednesday of next week. Then attention
> turns 
> to assembled backlog (#1 priority) and getting the MOTM-650 and MOTM-730
> shipped 
> (digital goodness!). I am also finishing up schematic capture of the MOTM-810
> VC 
> ADSR, and waiting to get my "design package" for the MOTM-460 MuTron Bi-Phase
> clone.
> 
> Paul S.
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