really tiny for me. I like girth. 1.6mm would be ideal for PCBs.
Say what now? Chisel is so much better. Never understood why the conical is tip is the default one. Probably because it's cheaper to manufacture.
Not at the moment. But it's very simple. Take male-male breadboard jumpers and stick em in the terminal blocks. When you want to test a board either stick them in the pads on the board or connect them to wires soldered to the board with alligator clips
I use a hoof tip but for PCBs chisel tips work better for me as I can rest the flat part against the lead and pad. It's a bit harder with a hoof tip because it's rounded.
A medium knife tip works well on larger components like turrets, pot lugs and the back of pots.
I tin the tip and clean it...
In my case both leakage and hfe go down and eventually settle. It means the transistors are cooling down. Don't handle them with your hands, use tweezers. Or wait.
I see. I don't understand why a designer looking for a clean look wouldn't choose a knob or up/down arrows for temperature instead of the perverted UI they went for :)
Isn't that the opposite? The designer would probably have wanted arrow buttons or a knob but the engineer asked for 50 menus of custom options then the penny pinchers made the final decision.
(As they say in design circles, a giraffe is a horse designed by a committee.)
Nice! I built mine from a Musikding kit and later added a 3-way toggle to cycle through the stock 3n3 cap, 13n3 and 15n3 - the latter is my go-to setting as it removes the mid scoop and it makes the pedal audible.
It's really cool!
I'll buy one at 3 conditions:
1. Must cost at least a grand.
2. The waiting list must be X years.
3. No discernible effect when turned on.
Like the real thing :)