Re: Same Old Questions
2004-01-21 by paulhaneberg
Heres the same old answers: No-Clean Solder is 21 AWG DigiKey Part #KE1400-ND Organic Solder is 25 AWG DigiKey Part #KE1301-ND Paul uses Resistors from DigiKey. 5% Carbon Film QBK series For Example: 22K would be 22KQBK-ND 1% are Metal Film XBK series For Example 51.1K would be 51.1KXBK-ND If you got 1 pound of each solder type you would have enough for maybe 50 kits. Would the synth sound different with all 1% resistors? I very much doubt it. The tolerance defines the range of values which are acceptable as being within 5% or 1% of the specified value. That doesn't mean that the values are really off by that much, it just means they could be. Paul not only uses 1% values, in really critical spots he uses .1% tolerance resistors. In most cases the operating temperature could affect the resistance values more so than being out of tolerance.