MOTM

My pleasure, I'm glad to help!  If you are going to make your own cabinet
you may want to get some of these mounting rails:
http://www.bridechamber.com/bridechamber.com/Cab%20Mounting.html  You could
always just screw your modules into the wood but I think having nice
machined metal holes will be better!

And Eric F gave you some good advice too. You should plan out the size of
your cabinet and then map out all the modules you will eventually want to
fill it with. (you will probably change your mind 100 times before it's
actually filled but we are just looking for a ball-park estimate for now
;-).  Then add up all the amperage needed for all those modules and add
another 20 - 30 %.  If the MOTM-950 falls safely within range then you
should be fine. When I checked to see if the MOTM-950 would be enough for my
first rack I only had 30ma left over so I felt that was cutting it too
close.  I decided to go DIY then and bought the parts and figured things
out. (thanks in particular to Richard Brewster's site) My power supply has
approximately 2x the capacity of the MOTM-950 so 'hopefully' it will power
both of my cabinets.  

Of course you could always just get a MOTM-900 AND a MOTM-950 and put them
in the same cabinet if it's large. (did you see Neil Bradley's recent for
sale post? He has both for sale and you may want to snap those up if you
can!)  I definitely recommend mounting the power supply(s) in the back of
the cabinet so you have more room in front for modules that "do stuff"! ;-)

Have fun!

John L Rice


-----Original Message-----
From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
patchdub1972
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:31 PM
To: motm@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [motm] Re: seeking advice for how to start a motm system

john-  many thanks for your advice and the links.  your suggestions
seem like a real good way to go.  as for the case, for work i am a
finish carpenter so i am looking forward to designing a case for the
system.  i hadn't been thinking too hard about midi-cv converters yet
and am curious to look more into the 650.  sound like it makes sense
to get the 950 rather than the 900.  the 650 has an arpeggiator?  that
is way cool.  

your system looks like fun enjoy it!