MW success
2003-10-22 by Roger Rossen
Well I finally broke down and decided to do my motm miniwave - with the aid of Larry's 'manual'. What a big help - thanks for taking the time to do that! I started to remember the nightmare of doing wiring without much of a road map (labels) and it really tries my dwindling patience! Although there are indeed labels on the Blacet board - its just not the same...and of course I got ahead of myself and did some board wires then panel wires and ended up with a mish-mash of a web. I got if figured out though, slowed my heart-rate down(took the meds) and plugged her in- and the little lights lit! and they counted in the proper binary manner - I'm amazed. Someday I'll actually plug the thing in to a system and see if it ALL works...now thats the test isn't it? Oh - and just to drive some folks crazy - I did use aqua leds for the bank and orange for the wave - looks pretty festive! I am starting to get the idea, however, that all my homeless modules laying out all over the place in my studio - are conspiring against me and my Kurzweil - possibly looking to assimilate us! If you don't hear from me in the next week or so....?!?!?!? Lastly - I did use epoxy to secure the leds - this may be sacrilege, but actually it pops right off the panel free and clear if you have a change of heart. The bonus being that if you 'build up a couple layers of epoxy - it acts as a VERY effective strain-relief for the little guys - those leds have pretty wanky little leads - huh? Rog