Re: Just a little show and tell

another nice combo is black with gold plating.. looks flashy! btw, love the design!

--- On Tue, 10/6/09, William Boucher <boucher@mnsi.net> wrote:

> From: William Boucher <boucher@mnsi.net>
> Subject: Re: VECTOR: Just a little show and tell
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
> Received: Tuesday, October 6, 2009, 11:28 PM
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> That is one dam fine job
> Clay.  I'm very
> impressed.  People will be tripping over themselves to
> get those
> babies!  BTW, I like the blue soldermask.  I use
> that color a lot
> also.  I guess I'm just tired of green.  I
> did some red PCB's for
> a customer once and he liked them so much that he hung a
> bunch of them on his
> Christmas tree that year.  It was a flux-angle
> position sensor for a
> motorized butterfly valve, but oh well.
>  
> William Boucher
> www.biltronix.com
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> ----- Original Message
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> From:
> Clay
> Cowgill
> To: vectorlist@vectorlist.org
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> Sent: Tuesday,
> October 06, 2009 11:00
> PM
> Subject: VECTOR:
> Just a little show and
> tell
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> Way back when
> (probably about nine years ago as a matter of fact ;-) I
> bought a bunch
> of bare LV2000 boards from Jeff and kitted the
> parts from
> Mouser.  I used a couple and then took the rest to
> Ground Kontrol and
> let a couple of our trainee game repair people put
> them together for the
> machines at GK.  That was, in hindsight, not the
> best plan.  Lots of
> f'ed up LV2000's with lifted traces and various
> other damage. 
> Whoops.
>  
> Since I've been
> slowly picking through my dead WG6100 chassis over the
> summer (and now
> fall) it seemed like a good time to make my
> own LV2000 clone for
> GK that was as totally foolproof as possible
> (no wires to solder or
> things to tune) and that could stand up to some
> abuse.  I
> used really thick traces and double-sided
> copper to make them a bit
> less fragile (for our occasionally ham-fisted
> technicians) and the
> connections to the deflection board are short, solid
> pins so there's
> no way to wire them up to the wrong spots.  The back
> of the board is
> basically solid copper plane connected to the
> regulator tabs by some vias
> to help sink heat away.
>  
> Anyway, they
> arrived last week and turned out kinda neat, so I thought
> I'd share a pic of
> my variation on the original.
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> http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/--yIG3xhraInl24S8VCHDw?feat=directlink
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> (...and yes, I
> should have labeled the pins more like +/-26V, but I had
> the target voltage
> for the output of the power transistors on my mind.
> ;-)
>  
> -Clay
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