Have been travelling this past week since Tuesday.
a) the new BTI pots for my Euro rack E340 SSAW VCO arrived. They look very
nice! I can now finish up the pc board layout/front panel design and get
that module moved into prototype/production. The delivery time was 10 weeks
which was not bad considering Bourns is 16 weeks.
b) I am ordering a batch of parts to finish up all the VCO kits. The
schedule is to ship assembled backlog until mid-May, then switch over to
shipping all the kit backlog. Since Jan 1st, I have reduced the number of
orders in the backlog by 58. I still have ~ 85 orders left to go. Probably
50 of these are strictly kit orders, so once I have all the kits ready they
will ship in 1 week. I will then have a reasonable backlog so after 3 years
or so I can have R&D time in large blocks. Looking at the cart, I've shipped
1069 orders since June 2006 with another 32 partially shipped orders.
c) I am ordering parts for the next 'DIY' module, the Yamaha Bandpass VCF.
The pots are Bourns but 100K linear and 10K linear. These will be in the
Extra Parts Kit with a few other things. It's a easy-to-build module (about
like a '420) in 1U width. I am setting aside time the last week of May to
lay the board out. It's already prototyped so the design is checked out.
More info later as I get it going.
I know things have gotten a bit "draggy" this spring due to real job travel.
But by June 1 I still think that the vast majority of orders will be shipped
out.
d) So far only 2 folks have entered the '730 contest. I'll declare the
winners (coin flip?) on Monday so if anyone wants to go at it this
weekend...........
Paul S.
a) the new BTI pots for my Euro rack E340 SSAW VCO arrived. They look very
nice! I can now finish up the pc board layout/front panel design and get
that module moved into prototype/production. The delivery time was 10 weeks
which was not bad considering Bourns is 16 weeks.
b) I am ordering a batch of parts to finish up all the VCO kits. The
schedule is to ship assembled backlog until mid-May, then switch over to
shipping all the kit backlog. Since Jan 1st, I have reduced the number of
orders in the backlog by 58. I still have ~ 85 orders left to go. Probably
50 of these are strictly kit orders, so once I have all the kits ready they
will ship in 1 week. I will then have a reasonable backlog so after 3 years
or so I can have R&D time in large blocks. Looking at the cart, I've shipped
1069 orders since June 2006 with another 32 partially shipped orders.
c) I am ordering parts for the next 'DIY' module, the Yamaha Bandpass VCF.
The pots are Bourns but 100K linear and 10K linear. These will be in the
Extra Parts Kit with a few other things. It's a easy-to-build module (about
like a '420) in 1U width. I am setting aside time the last week of May to
lay the board out. It's already prototyped so the design is checked out.
More info later as I get it going.
I know things have gotten a bit "draggy" this spring due to real job travel.
But by June 1 I still think that the vast majority of orders will be shipped
out.
d) So far only 2 folks have entered the '730 contest. I'll declare the
winners (coin flip?) on Monday so if anyone wants to go at it this
weekend...........
Paul S.