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Re: Model 15A, where art thou?

2008-04-22 by astroschnautzer

Well, hopin for some quick problem solvery :) quite a boring module but it would be so 
useful.... anyway the other ELF modules seem to be very interesting and useful...any ideas 
on price yet?

-Wille


--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure that out)" 
<peter@...> wrote:
>
> This is a very good point.  Let me give you the 411.
> 
> There are workings one-offs of every module I announced this morning.
> Some have been up and running since last early last fall - the Model
> 30 amoung them, although in that it exsists in software we are making changes and 
adding fetaures all the time.
> 
> As far as the hardware however, the circuits announced this morning are all complete 
and final. I am now in the middle of the PCB art for the Elfs which is the first wave of the 
newbies. In short, everything I announced today is a go, working and outside of pcb art, 
complete.  One issue that was slowing these down was the nuts to the new jacks, as many 
of these new ones cannot be built with Cliffs. Their faceplate topography is such that they 
are way too dense for the vertically mounted Cliffs.
> 
> The 15A however still has one feature that I am not happy with - the
> 1 up/ 1 down octave switch.  The circuit i had was not stable
> enough.  You'd set the up/down margins and in a few weeks they were
> both off.  SO in this respect, the 15A is not at the same stage of
> development as the others.
> 
> The good news, I think I've come to a solution by utilizing voltage
> references instead of trim pots to set these linmits.  I've not yet
> tested it.  My plan was if I was able to get to that by the time the
> rest of the Elfs are ready to be released that I'd throw it in with
> those and announce it at that time.
> 
> Keep in mind that along with these 15 modules are three cases
> currently under development. It's an exciting and challenging time.
> Exciting because system-level Plan B's are clearly in sight.
> Challenging because there is much to do, and just so many hours in
> the day to do it...
> 
> - P
> 
> 
> 
> --- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "astroschnautzer"
> <astroschnautzer@> wrote:
> >
> > very nice looking modules, but where is model 15A?
> >
>

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