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Once all of them have been shipped, there will be 56 of them "in the wild". 
The first three were prototypes.  The second three were pre-production.  The 
following 50 are production.  Okay... the first few (maybe a dozen) were 
"fun" to build (sort of).  After that... well... oh the stories I could 
tell!  heh

Things go along smoothly until you hit one with a problem and have to 
diagnose and troubleshoot it.  I had one with a single bad DAC channel on it 
(tiny little surface mount part).  Talk about *frustrating*!  I also hand 
match all the LEDs as well as several other parts.  For those of you who 
haven't seen one in person... all the resistors and diodes (and there are a 
LOT of them) are all "hand formed" as the resistors mount vertically and the 
diodes aren't quite 0.4" (can't use the lead former - and never trust the 
handy PCB layout software!).  Anyway... when it comes down to it, the PCBs 
aren't that difficult.  It's getting the parts matched and then off it goes. 
Wiring the panel takes "forever".  I'm glad there are so many "partials"!!! 
(Thanks Larry!!!)  Believe it or not, what drives me nuts is the power 
cables, packaging, updating software for the CDs, etc.   The layout of the 
wiring pads could have been better.  I route them neatly and am actually a 
bit afraid to change *anything* because these work so well *exactly* as they 
are.

Anyway... onwards and sideways... errr... upwards!  :)

Take care everyone!
- Brice
http://www.SynthModules.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "john mahoney" <jmahoney@gate.net>
To: <SynthModules@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2004 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [SynthModules] Re: PSIM-1 schedule update


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>> Thanks for the update Brice.  I too feel for you.  I sure would not
>> welcome the idea of assembling 50 modules for others.  Heck, I
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>> even find time to build the ones for me. :-)
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> Is 50 the real number? Wow!
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> What will be the total population of PSIMs "in the wild," once
> everything in the pipeline has been shipped?
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> john
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