AO Dual Quantizer

Christian Bloch,

Give me!

-Fumu / Esopus

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id be interested in buying on on the next run! I must have missed the first one dang!

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Apparently you blinked!

Maybe someone in the UK will do an order? Postage from China to US to UK adds up!

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@analogoutput I found the BOM for the panel, but I can’t figure out where it is for the board.

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It’s in the dac/ino repository https://github.com/holmesrichards/dac_ino

Here https://github.com/holmesrichards/dac_ino/blob/master/hardware/dac_ino/dac_ino_bom.md

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ahh so that’s where it was hiding, thankyou

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Love to see a black one, I’ll buy one. Think I picked up the last white one on Reverb yesterday.

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Kinda sounds like I should have ordered more than five :rofl:

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Looks like it. :confused: I’m definitely planning on picking one up if I’m fast enough.

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I think I’ll do a second run. Colors not decided.

In the build notes I wrote:

Silkscreen error

In version 1.3, the silkscreened values for R28 and R29 are reversed. R28 should be 100k and R29 should be 1M.

but that’s badly worded — the component values are correct, the reference numbers are reversed. R29 is the 1M between R28 and R30. Anyway, in the next run it’ll be fixed.

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I just added five more black panels and five yellow dac/ino boards to my order. @analogoutput, I’ll send you a set or two if you want them. It’s the least I can do.

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Oh man. I just placed an order.

(Also red dac/ino.)

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There’ll be options!

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They won’t sell out as fast…

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I have no room in my case for this, but I would like to give this thing a crack - how many UK based people are keen? Put your hands up.

I’ve never gotten PCBs printed before so don’t really know what I’m doing, but willing to learn if we can reach the quota between us

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Pretty simple especially since the Gerber files are already made. (Panel: https://github.com/holmesrichards/QuantizerModule/tree/master/hardware/Panel/Quantizer_panel_Gerbers . PCB: https://github.com/holmesrichards/dac_ino/tree/master/hardware/dac_ino/dac_ino_Gerbers .) Pretty much you just need to compress them to .zip format, go to wherever you’re having it done (I usually use https://jlcpcb.com/), upload the .zip file, choose a color, and open your wallet. There are other options they give you but most you can ignore.

For the panel there are a couple of extra bits. When ordering from JLCPCB I uncheck “flying probe test” and add a note like:

This is a front panel. There is no circuit, only copper fills. Ignore any electrical errors.

And if it says “JLCJLCJLCJLC” somewhere on the panel (it does, on the back) then if you check “Remove Order Number: Specify a location”, JLCPCB will silkscreen the order number there instead of, say, in the middle of the front of the panel. You can tell them not to place the order number at all, but that costs extra.

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Nice! I’d been googling around and couldn’t find anything as succinct as this - thanks a lot!

If we can get a few interested I’ll see what I can do

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A little absent, a concert to prepare which took me a lot of time, but happy to see all these new discussions and the evolution of many projects of each! :slightly_smiling_face:

great achievement Rich !
I’ll probably try to build it later on stipboard, but I’m not too used to Github and can’t find the dac/ino schematic.
or else do you have a complete diagram ?
thx

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Sorry… you couldn’t find it because it wasn’t there, other than as KiCad files. Now there’s a PDF. Also the repo’s kind of confusing, but I just added a docs folder to make it easier: https://github.com/holmesrichards/dac_ino/tree/master/docs
The schematic’s a bit (maybe more than a bit) confusing because the repetitive parts of the circuit are handled with KiCad heirarchical pages, so you have lots of pages with only a few components on each. There’s also a PCB layout which might help or not, and I moved the BOM to that directory as well.

It’s a lot for a stripboard, I think, but if you’re up for it, do it! (If you just want one quantizer of course you can leave out half the inputs and outputs.) By all means post a layout here if you do succeed with it.

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Yes @Dud if you manage a stripboard version I’d love to see it here. Love stripboard!

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