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[motm] 320 has too many resistors? (everything's relative)

2000-09-12 by elhardt@aol.com

When stuffing my 320 LFO boards I found myself annoyed by amount of time the 
resistors took.  I now have a whole different perspective on electronic kit 
building after buying this used humongus mega-organ that was built from a kit:

http://members.aol.com/elhardt/images/galaxy.jpg

It came with a 4 inch stack of 27 manuals and booklets full of schematics, 
parts lists, PCB layouts and assembly instructions.  The 320 now looks like 
heaven now.

Funny note:  I received the thing today, plugged it in without the speackers 
connected just so I could see all the pretty lights come on.  I engaged all 
the buttons on the right of the keyboard so they were all lit.  It was like 
Christmas.  I ran upstairs for a minute to get my digital camera to take a 
photo, but when I came back downstairs the organ was dead.  It blew two 4 amp 
fuses.  Before I could even hear it produce a single note I had to drive to 
Radio Shack for fuses.  I have now learned not to turn all the buttons on at 
the same time, and this is a good example of how much current all those damn 
LEDs draw.

-Elhardt

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