PLAN B analog blog

Just out of curiosity, is there a philosophical reason why you're
sticking to through-hole rather than robosuffing with SMT?

-Sean

--- In PLAN_B_analog_blog@yahoogroups.com, "(i think you can figure
that out)" <peter@...> wrote:
>
> All,
> 
> Effective today we are beginning shipments of the newly re-designed
> Model 15 Complex VCO which incorporates two major changes:  The
> elimination of Cliff Jacks and 12 point to point interconnect wires. 
> A photo has been posted:
> 
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PLAN_B_analog_blog/photos/album/630816539/pic/1562852986/view?picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=41&dir=asc
> 
> The circuit, the module functionality and the price remains unchanged.
>   These improvements were put in play to increase our production
> throughput, decrease the potential for field failures with the
> elimination of the 12 hand-soldered wires and addresses the continual
> Cliff jack availability issue which has shut our production line down
> in the past, most notably last summer at the worst possible time
> imaginable:  two weeks before the ELFs were to be released when Cliff
> announced they were halting worldwide production for three months.  
> 
> Freed from those constraints I am confident the M15 availability will
> flourish.
> 
> - P
>