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Personally... I'm not too keen on part of that idea.  It would be FAR too
easy for me to forgetfully stick a socket in that upper-left and wonder what
the hell was going on.  And it only gets worse when chaining...  Therefore,
I stick with my opinion that a 2x4+1x6 is keen, in a 1U package...  And
since we're apparently getting more power distributers on other modules,
well, no concern for that anymore.  

--PBr

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Tkacs, Ken [SMTP:Ken.Tkacs@...]
> Sent:	Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:18 AM
> To:	'MOTM Forum All'
> Subject:	[motm] Multiples--One man's Opinion
> 
> From: "Tkacs, Ken" <Ken.Tkacs@...>
> 
> 
> Personally, rather than have a 2u panel with a million multiples on it all
> in one spot, I would rather have a 1u panel that had 2 or 3 "quads" of
> multiples on it. If I need more (which I would) I would buy two.
> 
> Here's my reasoning:
> 
> Multiples are one of those 'you never know where you're going to need it'
> modules, and it would be nice to spread them around instead of having one
> massive patch matrix in the corner somewhere.
> 
> With the triple "quad" multiple idea, you could make it so that the upper
> left jack in the second and third quad were normalized to the quad above
> it.
> So if you plug jacks in everywhere, you have three independent quad
> multiples, but if you leave the upper left jack out of, say, the second
> quad, you have seven jacks tied together (I'm a bit surprised at those who
> wrote that they didn't need more than a 1-in-3-out multiple block... in my
> experience, I quite often need a lot more than a three-split).
> 
> Third, and this may sound silly at first... I think we need more 1u
> modules!
> I know there are more on the way, but right now, all we have is the EG. It
> makes it tougher to arrange module configurations without some more
> 'little
> pieces' to offer options. It's like playing Tetris. You have an EG and the
> only thing you can offset it with right now is... another EG! Might as
> well
> be a 2u module. I actually *do* have two EGs, but I don't need them next
> to
> each other. So I'm hungry for some of those 1u modules (especially the
> VCO).
>