#181 just arrived at my door today.
I'm very excited (though won't have time to start assembling till the weekend at the earliest.. and looking at everyone's take on high hfe transistors, maybe I'll wait till after I've ordered a bunch of those for sorting through?)
Anyway - I just sat down to count/check tha parts off against the BOM, and I'm feeling a paper construction manual would have really been handy, 1) for ticking stuff off on. And... 2) well.... for having on the desk when soldering.
So, is there meant to be a printed construction manual shipped with this kit, or do I plonk my laptop down next to the iron on my soldering bench and hope I don't burn it accidentally?
printed construction manual?
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- subatomic
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zero01101 wrote:it came out quite usable, a few words got chopped off here and there but nothing thats going to destroy the instructions... i did mine at work, weve got a copier that prints via network
http://www.subatomicglue.com/x0xl0g/
you can kind of see how I printed mine...
- 1 fab manual (each section printed in booklet form, then binder clipped all sections together, edited html ahead of time to remove left side table of contents.)
- 1 user manual (booklet printed)
- 1 mods manual (just the mods page in booklet form)
- 4 pages of schematics (chopped in photoshop and blown up for readability)
printer is a canon, which has booklet printing in the driver, it's nice.
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here's the link:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf
ladyada, maybe you can put it on your site?
or in the wiki, jonnay?
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf
ladyada, maybe you can put it on your site?
or in the wiki, jonnay?
- subatomic
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Your resistors are in black and white in the PDF (at least using my acrobat reader...). I think people would rather use the web page and print in color. I found it to be really fast and useful rather than use a resistor color code chart (maybe I'm one of the few people that don't memorize that?).bicky wrote:here's the link:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf
ladyada, maybe you can put it on your site?
or in the wiki, jonnay?
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yeah, i noticed too, that's also why i wrote the colors also in text.subatomic wrote: Your resistors are in black and white in the PDF (at least using my acrobat reader...). I think people would rather use the web page and print in color. I found it to be really fast and useful rather than use a resistor color code chart (maybe I'm one of the few people that don't memorize that?).
i dunno why the resistors became gray because other pictures remained in color.
i still have the doc-file and there, everything is in color so i'll try again with some different pdf-making settings.
and here is a nice tool for checking resistor color codes,
it's freeware but it's in german...
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/ohmv1.zip
i tried some different settings and now the resistors are in color,
the link is still the same:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf
the link is still the same:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf
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