MOTM

You owe me 18 cents + 43 cents postage for the replacement parts I mailed.
<just kidding>!!

I feel bad I didn't ask you this on the phone.

Keep the spares for later!!

Paul S.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
To: MOTM listserv <motm@onelist.com>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 2:05 PM
Subject: [motm] I am the stoopidest MOTM builder alive


>From: Doug Pearson <ceres@...>
>
>Why not make my first post to the MOTM list a ripe opportunity for some
>public humiliation?
>
>I successfully built MOTM-110, -120 and even -300, but I couldn't get the
>easiest one (MOTM-800) to work - all the gate input apparatus was dead and
>the input transistor (Q1) wouldn't turn on.  I called Paul for help, mostly
>to verify that I'd need to replace the transistor (Q1) and diode (D1) at
>the input, and he helped clue me in on some diagnostics, as well as asking
>all the stupid, obvious questions that have to be asked first (are all the
>chips oriented properly?  do you have the proper wires soldered to the
>proper jack terminals? - duh!).
>
>DUH! is right.  I went back to the circuit board to remove D1, just to see
>what would happen - it still didn't work.  Then I looked below D1 at the 3
>wires coming from the circuit board to the gate jack ... no! I couldn't
>possibly have been that stupid!  I was.  Ground (grey) and output (white)
>wires were soldered INTO THE WRONG HOLES.  Rather than muck with the
>circuit board, I just swapped the two wires on the jack terminals and
>presto!  One 100% working MOTM-800 ADSR EG!
>
>Boy do I feel stupid (sorry for taking up your time, Paul!).  But hearing
>those modules work together sure made me feel good!
>
> -Doug
> ceres@...
>
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