1222 Tuner VCO Module

I spent some time on the drift topic, finally!

The module I used for testing seems to have different issues. (the black edition). It already comes with a drift of 3Hz without modification and octave switch troubles in the middle position (F instead of C).

However, I replaced it with another module (yellow edition).

The results are:

| modification    | drift at   | drift at   | drift at   | 
|                 | 130Hz (C3) | 260Hz (C4) | 520Hz (C5) |  
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| none            |       -1Hz |       -2Hz |       -5Hz |
| R13 200k        |       -4Hz |       -8Hz |      -17Hz |
| R13 200k +   5M |       +1Hz |       +2Hz |       +4Hz | (positive drift!)
| R13 200k + 6,6M |       -0Hz |       -0Hz |       -1Hz | (10M and 20M in parallel)
| R13 200k +  10M |       -1Hz |       -2Hz |       -5Hz |
| R13 200k +  20M |       -2Hz |       -6Hz |      -11Hz |
| R13 200k +  30M |       -3Hz |       -6Hz |      -13Hz |

RT-65B psu | saw wave used as reference | 
V2 centered no CV signal

Practically, 200k // 6,6M even reduces the drift compared to no modification!
It also nice to see the drift is scaling.

EDIT: updated table with more measurements.
EDIT2: replace 7,3M with 6,6M. (my brain went off for a minute!!!)

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