Wednesday, June 18, 2008

AU Components

I was asked today what components you can source locally here in Australia.

Attached is a spreadsheet containing the components I ordered from Digi-Key and Mouser.

Everything else is available here in Australia (from Jaycar for example).

Enjoy.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Busy

Loads done today.

Finished the VCA, Headphone & Mixer and I/O Board sections.

That's all the analogue sections finished!

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Envelope

Completed envelope.

Mods:
  • socketed Q39





Tests OK.

VCF


Belated completion of
VCF.

Mods:
  • all ICs socketed (except the 2SC536F's, there are too many of them!)
  • switched 'mome rath' mod (R46/R97)




Tested OK.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

VCO

Completed the VCO.

Mods:
  • header on J4
  • all rare ICs socketed
  • Q8 socketed
Saw and square waves successfully viewed on CRO. All other build tests OK.



Sunday, May 11, 2008

first you get the money...

Finished the power section today.

This was all pretty much by-the-book except for:
I had trouble getting the correct voltage range out of TM6/IC22; 5.01 - 5.35V rather than the suggested 5.25 - 5.75V. I completed the section and managed to tune the required 5.33V on J4 so I guess that will be OK.



Test results during construction:
  • power jack 11V AC
  • C3 14.7V DC
  • C5 15.1V DC
  • IC20 5.05V DC
  • C1 5.98V DC
  • J4 5.33V & 11.83V DC

Saturday, May 10, 2008

all present and correct

All the components have now arrived. Packages from Adafruit, Mouser, Jaycar and Digikey.

Let's get started!