Recent content by jhford

sadly, because i'm in europe, that 60¢ pot is probably going to end up cost 30-40€ to get here in the end. Looking at the schematic, I noticed that the the relevant potentiometer doesn't have anything connected to Pin 1. I suspect this schematic isn't really 100% accurate? Is Pin 1 going to...

My son of ben kit finally arrived and it's the new PCB with footprint for a standard 3 pin mono potentiometer. My kit shipped with a stereo 1MΩ pot instead of a mono 2MΩ. Does anyone know where you can buy an appropriate mono 2M pot? Or how to wire up a stereo pot to work as a mono pot of the...

I am going through the parts list and noticed that this one component is written in red. Since I can't seem to find any documentation on the conventions assumed in these PCBs I wanted to avoid guessing whether this means something. I'm looking at the document "revised 12/6/20"

The first kit I tried to put together resulted in me melting my 3pdt switch due to having to use leadfree solder and not realising how hot the switches got. The 3pdt boards were really helpful, also for kits which didn't have an LED space on their board. Now I don't find them at all hard to do...