--- Dieter Doepfer < hardware@... > wrote:

> From: "Dieter Doepfer" < hardware@... >
> To: "Bakis Sirros" < synth_freak_2000@... >
> Subject: AW: 1 installing switched
> sockets for a "prepatched" configuration
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:38:59 +0200
>
> > Hi all
> > I am considering to replace some standard 3.5 mm
> sockets with
> > switched sockets in order to create prepatched
> connections between
> > some modules (eg. VCOs -> mixer -> VCF -> VCA <-
> EG)
> >
> > An "integrated VCO/VCF/VCA module" idea was
> overwhelmingly voted away
> > on a recent poll giving me great grief ;-(, so I
> thought to create my
> > own
> >
> > Since I am wondering how hard this really is, I am
> curious if anyone
> > of you has experience with this, specifically the
> actual replacement
> > of sockets; where to find suitable sockets, how
> hard/easy it is to
> > replace them
>
> The sockets used in the A-100 are sockets with
> switching contacts.
> All you have to do is to disconnect the sockets pins
> corresponding to the
> switching contacts and re-wire them as desired.
> Sometimes these pins are
> unused but in most cases they are connected to the
> corresponding
> non-switching pin (to simplify the pcb layout).
> Unfortunately it will be necessary in many cases to
> remove the socket (i.e.
> desolder the socket) to be able to interrupt the
> track on the pc board that
> connects both pins.
>
> Best wishes
> Dieter Doepfer
>
>

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Bakis Siros
Parallel Worlds / Polariton
Athens-Greece
1 group owner
http://www.shimarecords.co.uk
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