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technobreath

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  1. Yeah, setting up the gear all over again is the "fun" part :P. Hehe.

    I have done a stupid thing though :) I have to relocate the amplifier. It is suspended by belts underneath the table - right under the mouse. That worked great with wired key/mouse, but not now :). Mouse works best on the outer corners of the desk now :P. And the keyboard needs to be in the lap if I want to do some serious writing on it :P.

  2. Hehe, cables work ok. What really amazes me is the elixir strings. At first I was unsure what to think about em, but after playing a couple of minutes, my conclusion is that these are very much worth the extra money. It made playing smoother and not that much strength was needed when transit between chords, it felt more like an elguitar with light strings and extremely low action, and it was way easier to play em. I dont know how else to describe it. If you ever wondered about getting elixir strings for ur guitar, u can just go buy them, dont ask if its good enough, it is :).

  3. Dude! Can I use Nec chipset? :o If I knew I wouldve bought one of them, since there was several on stock with Nec chip... well well... the TI card is on its way, if the dealer can manage to smoke em out from customs in time :P.

    Edit:

    The TI card was due to come to the shops may 31st. but they later changed that to june 8th. I have contacted them, and I know they are on their way now :)

  4. I usually make my own cables too, most of the cables I use / make is xlr or stereojack stuff, but I had no mono jack connectors laying around, and I needed cables now :) so I just went and got these ;)

  5. 9090 is very cool. I might some day decide to build one - it's just that I'm kinda where I was with my SID synths 6-7 years ago - I thought it was just as good to have them synths as VSTi - but now I wouldn't dream of not having a couple of mbSIDs :D - not quite finished yet but hehe. I was at a point where I used a lot of viritual synths - but now I am building 64E to control my growing arsenal of hardware... funny how interests comes on strong when I can afford it for real :P

    Anyway - das 9090 looks great A!

  6. Ultra, theres a couple of pictures of that in my blog. I just didnt want to flod the gallery on the forum front page with pictures of the same thing ;).

    The reason why its not all lit up yet - only a test - is that I havent got the smd resistors for the pcb yet ;).

  7. nopes. I sure could fit a couple of shift registers on there somewhere, but this would mean dual layer board and a lot thinner traces. My main goal with this was a board that could be fast and easily etched at home ;).

  8. Bag on the window is there because it's broken. And why state this obvious fact? My grandma who lives in the house for the time being forgot to bring her keys and locked herself out. When she got home, she knew I was about to replace that window anyway, so what did she do? Crushed it, removed all glass from the frame (till she bled) and crawled in :D haha. it's about 30x35cm hole.

  9. I'm drawing up some schems for this IC based solution now. This IC seems very promising the more I look into it. However, I have certain issues trying to wrap my head around how it really works. I'm soon there though ;). This chip, however is particulary interesting since it can do voltage window comparing. The undervoltage condition detection is a really interesing bonus. I'll try and come up with a design that trigger the SCR at precise over voltage conditions, and also a autoshutdown of all rails at under-voltage condition. I have done an experimental PSU schem some months ago to learn about how to achieve these functions using basic components. The huge drawback to this was that the design had much more discrete components, and many comparator ICs. It also provided seperate vref from a seperate ciruit. This IC seems to have all of this built in, and I only need 3 resistors for each of the ICs to set the window for it to operate in normal state. This IC also makes it easier to incorporate these status LEDs jojjelito asks for, though I'm not sure how interesting such leds really would be. A single LED that is green when all rails are operational and that is red if a fuse is gone would probably be enough for me. Those 5x20mm glass fuses is easy enough to visually confirm broken or not. I try to keep the design as simple as possible... In the final design I will pobably use panel mount fuse holders, to make it way easier to change them if they blow. Any ideas to this IC based design is very welcome.

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