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Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 7:20 am Post subject:
ok, finished xoxbox, waiting for IO panel and sold some more bits
bench
xoxbox < waiting for Io mod kit
wave multiplier < seems to have cut out grr
cgs synthacon vcf < needs caps
tube filter boxes < need panel and then laquer box
read for panels
4 x qfgs <just needs some lf444/tl064s but pretty close
dual TH-vca1 dual wogglebug one populated
pcbs to build now
quad lfo < next
digisound I/O < next
mb808 < next
cgs vco
yusynth ems vcf
4x lpgs
analog computer
mankato
matrix mixer
neural agonizer
tau phaser
box'o'trix
doomsday machine
^ arranged in order of build
and for other peeps
krautrock phaser box < working on now _________________ .
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Joined: 30 Jan 2008 Last Visit: 24 May 2013 Posts: 1714 Location: Charlotte, VT
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject:
Klee construction makes you into a monk. Chop wood, carry water, build a wiring harness. Chop wood, carry water, build a wiring harness. and so forth.
Ok then, all wiring harnesses completed as of 3am this morning There's a task I never want to do again. But I checked every one from the bare wiring end to a test pin header and we're good to go. Tonight, sleep, then the actual work of soldering it all together can begin.
A note to anyone pondering Kleeness: it is blatantly obvious that building the headers is the only way to go. But you will cut, strip, tin, clamp, insert, and test about 200 wires during this exercise It took me probably 12 hours total over 3 nights (but I am slow, and anal, and tested everything). If you got the parts kit from E-M, you will find you have about 16 "spare" um, those little wire doohickeys that you clamp to the tinned end and jam into the header. Thank god. I mangled 9 of them
I have a little wiring station, with spools horizontally on a dowel poked through some scrap wood. It helped a LOT. I could pull 6 wires at a time and cut to the same length. After making one harness completely, I went with a suggestion in the Build doc, and cut all the remaining wires (as long as the farthest possible reach from my PCBs to a panel component), then stripped them all, then tinned them all, then went back to one-by-one assembly. That let me get into multiple little grooves where muscle memory and the lack of context switching made everything seem to go a little faster, YMMV.
Also, I will now lay claim to the most ghetto PCB mounting strategy ever. Pics to follow
In other bench news, I got my orders from Bridechamber, Mouser, and Allied, so I now *should* have all the parts in house to finish up the Attenuverter, Tau, Yusynth Diode filter, and the Buchla 281 ARs (oops, no, waiting on 10K lin pots from Futurelec for that...but close!). But for now focus is still on the Klee.
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Last Visit: 25 May 2013 Posts: 2574 Location: Spending warm summer days indoors writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:30 am Post subject:
An update for this month. Hopefully next one I'll be done, but the VCO and BiNtic are killing me
Fix it:
Wogglebug(damn bag of backwards BC550s from futurlec)
2x Buchla VC portamento (didn't know how to install the vactrols without a silkscreened PCB )
CGS VCO (stumped )
2x buchla 281 (I don't know how the hell I managed to put 18V zeners in there instead of 10)
CGS Analogic(the last time I try trimming the leads before soldering)
Fonik PS3100 resonators(BC550s again)
2x tube vca (needed a "for dummies" bias switch wiring guide)
CGS BiNtiC(stumped )
Build it:
x0xb0x (All tuned up. Just gotta screw it in the case and add some 1/4" jacks for CV/Gate)
mankato filter PS3100 resonators fritz 5 pulser tellun neural agonizer (PCB's and panel are ready, just waitin on them tanks)
tellun switching comparator (need a 3PDT) CGS(from here on) BiNtiC 2x tube vca 3x dc mixer 15x LED driver cascade mixer digital noise analog shift register (need a parts kit)
pulse dividers/boolean logic xor/xnor utility LFO (this one is aborted. Ran out of materials to make panels and won't be getting more for a while) _________________ It was only a hundred miles or so to the ice caverns, and the second day, when we were lying out under the blistering sun-thing he had materialized, he sent down some manna. Tasted like boiled boar urine. We ate it.
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Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:15 am Post subject:
My DIY backlog is off the map :(
2 x JH tau phasers
5 (!) x JH kraut rock phasers
3 x JH triple ensemble - one of these works, the other 2 need some troubleshooting
2 x JH freq shifters
2 x JH scanner/vib. Or was it three. I can't actually remember
2 x Fonik dual mix/invert
2 x Fonik triple resonators
Oakley octal resonator
Oakley noise generator
4 x Topp 281 clone
4 x DJ Thomas' LPG clone
2 x ryktnk sequencers
Klee sequencer
JLH octave selector
JLH interval selector
Tellun corp add-on for MOTM VCLFO
Tellun corp add-on for MOTM ADSR
Tellun corp MUUB board (built up, ready to use w/MOTM480 filter)
CGS analog shift register
Now, about 1/3 of this stuff actually has the full set of components soldered into place, I just need to get the panels and get it wired up, ect.
It is a Wiard-ish format panel which will contain an Oakley "Equinoxe" phaser (which I already built and ATM have behind a MOTM-format panel) and the Oakley Octal resonator, so that'll be the first one. I plan on buying a panel a month.
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Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Last Visit: 14 May 2011 Posts: 3378 Location: SF Bay Area
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject:
LOL. that box was so big they might as well have thrown in a deep dish pizza. _________________ Self expression is as essential as breathing
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Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Last Visit: 25 May 2013 Posts: 2574 Location: Spending warm summer days indoors writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject:
Yeah, what are you gonna do with all those? That's more than $600 in JH PCB's you've got there
I just put in my order for 1 tau, 1 kraut and 1 interpolating scanner 8) _________________ It was only a hundred miles or so to the ice caverns, and the second day, when we were lying out under the blistering sun-thing he had materialized, he sent down some manna. Tasted like boiled boar urine. We ate it.
Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Last Visit: 25 May 2013 Posts: 4913 Location: melbourne
Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 3:44 am Post subject:
so andrew what is wrong with your vco?
i can help you if you want
took me awhile to get mine rocking, but now it is fully functional
does anyone have a cgs synthacon vcf?
i extremely stumped with mine
need some help
just some pictures of a working finished one would do
im perplexed with mine
and how have you done your bias switch?
we can probably work through that too _________________ .
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Have you got the Elby version? Or Ken's? I think they both require some kludging to get operational, and the removal of some diodes to tame the resonance. I've got some photos of the kludges (done on the Elby pcb) if you'd like me to email them to you. I think the two pcb's are fairly similar in layout.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 4:13 am Post subject:
Luka wrote:
so andrew what is wrong with your vco?
i can help you if you want
You already did on page 2 but I haven't gotten around to checking it over yet. Well, I did, but discovered that none of the outputs worked this time. The core is still oscillating, so I must have blown up the TL072 or something last time I checked it. I'll have to fix that before I am back to where I was before, but I probably won't be able to look at it again until monday. I wish I could help with the synthacon, but I don't know the first thing about it
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and how have you done your bias switch?
we can probably work through that too
First I tried wiring it the way it is shown on the bridechamber page, but I must have done it wrong because nothing worked. Then I redid using the diagram guitarfool posted on e-music (the one I call the "for dummies" wiring guide) and it works great! It's really simple when you think about it. Just switching between the 2 different jumper/resistor combinations. _________________ It was only a hundred miles or so to the ice caverns, and the second day, when we were lying out under the blistering sun-thing he had materialized, he sent down some manna. Tasted like boiled boar urine. We ate it.
Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Last Visit: 25 May 2013 Posts: 4913 Location: melbourne
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 5:56 am Post subject:
yup great, well i have a colour coded pcb diagram explaining all the sections for the cgs vco if you want _________________ .
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:19 am Post subject:
Luka wrote:
yup great, well i have a colour coded pcb diagram explaining all the sections for the cgs vco if you want
i'd like that sir. i plan on building 3 of em in the future. _________________ Self expression is as essential as breathing
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Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:32 am Post subject:
Kwote wrote:
Luka wrote:
yup great, well i have a colour coded pcb diagram explaining all the sections for the cgs vco if you want
i'd like that sir.
As would I _________________ It was only a hundred miles or so to the ice caverns, and the second day, when we were lying out under the blistering sun-thing he had materialized, he sent down some manna. Tasted like boiled boar urine. We ate it.
Joined: 15 Jul 2008 Last Visit: 25 May 2013 Posts: 4913 Location: melbourne
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 2:34 am Post subject:
ok no prob, im just finishing making a ghetto-veroboard steiner vcf, once im done that ill check it out and make sure it all makes sense and post her up
debugging my vco taught me a lot about vcos and wave shaping it was a valuable experience _________________ .
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It took me probably 12 hours total over 3 nights (but I am slow, and anal, and tested everything). If you got the parts kit from E-M, you will find you have about 16 "spare" um, those little wire doohickeys that you clamp to the tinned end and jam into the header. Thank god. I mangled 9 of them 
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but I haven't gotten around to checking it over yet. Well, I did, but discovered that none of the outputs worked this time. The core is still oscillating, so I must have blown up the TL072 or something last time I checked it. I'll have to fix that before I am back to where I was before, but I probably won't be able to look at it again until monday. I wish I could help with the synthacon, but I don't know the first thing about it