Paleo-Electronics Blog

Ok.. I’ve installed a comment spam blocker. If you get blocked please grab my email address and let me know.
Also, the fix to WP was a hack so I have to change up some URL. If you have problems with pictures or sound, lemme know.

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Ah..  large sigh of relief.    I have found JSchem.   This is a free schematic capture application.    So far the only downside is that it doesn’t produce a netlist.    This will greatly simplify scratching out descriptions for the blog.
Put your search engine on it.

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I got the cutline theme to work again. Now I just gotta find out where the images ran off too.
It’s nice to be back.

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2nd Stage
Not sure here.   In fact, I have to admit to a bit of confusion.   See the output of a guitar pickup is roughly 0.5V peak to peak.    Maybe as much as a volt on a high output pickup.   The gain of the first stage is roughly 40 or more.    Now this [...]

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Wordpress is up to 2.7 but my favorite theme is not ready.    Bear with me, it shouldn’t be long.

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You may recall that I ended this post : Mods to the working GA-5 with a problem.
The problem was that like a bonehead, I didn’t try to dry fit any of it together and once the T8 was in place, it was hitting the PT.
So I had to rip the damn thing out. [...]

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Got the family out of the house for a few minutes, so the next few posts will be sound samples from the GA-5 pushed at volume.  Stay Tuned.

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I just found out today that my guitar instructor, Ron Jackson, has passed away.
Ron was an excellent teacher and a lot of fun to talk to. He had so much of the history of music in his head that there would always be some little historic note to go with the lesson. In [...]

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