Re: LV2000 Order Form

At 04:58 PM 1/19/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>Uhm, like, cold solder joints suck.
>
>Ahhh, I was thinking more along the lines of:
>
>"Well, I didn't have any LM317's so I just used a couple of TIP32s which
>fit. And I didn't have any caps left so I used some extra resistors-- they
>fit too so they must be OK. And I got tired of soldering all the little
>induhvidual pins so I just soldered them all together. For some reason it
>doesn't work. You must have screwed up and sent me a bad product."
>

You're giving me nightmares!!! Yea, I thought about this, however, when I
decided to offer the kit to the folks here on the vector list, the response
I got was "well can you just sell me a bare pcb? I can put it together
myself."
To be honest, I'de rather sell the kits pre-assembled. Then I can test them
and know that I'm sending a functioning unit. However, I can't do that for
as cheap of a price as people want the kit for.
The other caveat is that even if a sold a pre-assembled kit, the buyer
still has to install the PCB onto the deflection board. This still involves
removing parts, and soldering the new PCB down...
So, in the instructions I will have a *disclaimer*...if you screw up
soldering the parts on, well as they say "ce la vie!"

>and...
>
>"I used a 100W wood burner tool with some pipe-solder, so some of those
>little copper lines came off the board-- but I replaced 'em with some 12ga
>copper core wire left over from wiring my house."
>
>(Wait, maybe those were just RGVAC people... Variations on the above were
>part of the reason I decided to only sell ESB and Sega kits
>pre-assembled... :-)
>
>-Clay

Yea, anyone who gets the kit better not use those black five pound
soldering *guns* that look like 44 magnum!
On RGVAC, or rather RGVAM, the kit is only being offered pre-assembled.
Also I am offering an installation option, that is, you send in your
deflection PCB, I (or Jeff H) will install and test it with the new LV2000.
Any other deflection fix will get fixed on a per problem basis.

Since this is a simple kit (not as many solder points as your ESB or Sega
retros), I am hoping that I won't get too many f#?& ups. If it does get too
bad, I'll just cease the build-it-yourself kit, and only sell pre-assemble
ones.
I am going on the notion that most people here on vectorlist are competent
enough to build this kit. At least anyone who has installed parts from a
Zanen kit should have no problem.

-Anders.
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| Anders Knudsen
| ASIC Design Engineer
| Adaptec, Inc., Boulder Technology Center
| anders_knudsen@btc.adaptec.com
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Received on Tue Jan 20 07:35:05 1998