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More strange power tricks

2001-04-17 by bruce@sigalarm.com

Well, my little MOTM is growing, and I am not yet ready to build a 
Case-o-Doom to house it.  My system is still sitting in a 12 space 19" 
rack.  The part that has been a bummer is that 3 unit wide power 
supply. I know many of your have mounted your power supplies in other 
ways.  My rack was scrounged from what I had on hand, and the only 
thing available was an open back 12 space effects rack.

After some thinking, I decided to use one of the 2 empty rack spaces 
at the bottom for my power supply, and the other for a Lexicon Vortex 
that is currently a guardian of the dust in my closet.

It turns out that you buy a blank 1u panel cheaply, and with a small 
amout of work get everything mounted nicely.  There was space left 
over for several jacks, which I use for the input, output and control 
signals for the Vortex.  It is much more handy to have them on the 
front panel where they can be easily patched into the rest of the 
modular.

Just some thoughts and encouragement to experiment.

Bruce

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