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| SoundDoc:
$25 to build, or to sell for $25? It would me MUCH easier to do this with a small Micro. a pic with a reed relay, and maybe 3 or 4 other components would do it, and be fully programmable. parts would probably run around $10-20 if you were making just one, mass production woud be much less expensive. If you've just got the parts kicking around, I know theres a cost, but I've got easily 5000+ IC's and all the other components around to experiment with. So for proto'ing something up for a one off "different" app, this is probably easier. (don't have to code anything etc...) This started off fairly simple, with a single 556 and a couple of components, and if I ever needed to build this up, thats probably how I'd go. Just got the first coat of color on my cab! YAY! Another coat tonight, and build up the CP and I should be Rockin' by wednesday! sd |
| Lilwolf:
I think it was 20 - 25 out the door. Small board so a few bucks more for shipping. The trouble is the ones my old company are selling had to be certified something (don't remember what) because they are used in manufacturing floors and needed to be OSA? certified. And they are run on slightly smaller runs. I think 100 at a time or so. But I really haven't dealt with them because my old boss started using them right before I left. So I heard some of the troubles. I know why they are being used. But I never used them. |
| independentthread:
I am by no means an electronics expert, but I have a question about the whole thread in general... The final solution looks extremely comlicated for someone who only has soldering skills and no electronics knowledge. Is the simple solution of a capacitor strapped to the back of a plug going to hurt the motherboard, or is the cap simply going to wear out after time? That seems like a bigger question in my book. Is it worth trying (and probably failing) to make something like the circuit board from the end, or is it more ideal to replace something that I can probaly pull from something old and unworking. |
| danny_galaga:
it should be that the cap will last as long as any other cap in the motherboard. so it should go for years! |
| SirPeale:
The only thing the cap does is act as a bridge. By nature, caps start out shorted, and open up as current is applied. Since it's such a small cap, and the voltage is tiny (5V) the cap will likely outlast the cab. |
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