Couple Clarinet questions

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ecir38

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Couple Clarinet questions
« on: 9 Oct 2007, 03:25 pm »
The manual says clip the front metal feet off the volume & balance potentiometers. This is to prevent a short to a circuit trace below them.

Is this the right place to clip?


This is a picture of the outputs for the Clarinet that digikey sells. I think the color code is wrong for the board layout, am i correct?


Thanks

dnewman

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Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #1 on: 9 Oct 2007, 04:58 pm »
The picture on page 13 of the Clarinet manual appears to show a two gang set of RCA
output jacks that have red atop red on the right and white atop white on the left.  Given
that they are mounted such that the foot of the module is to the top of the chasis, the picture
you show would seem to agree with what appears in that picture on page 13.  I refer to
the picture, not having had built a Clarinet myself.  And, I don't have a PCB board with
which to check the traces.  However, should be easy enough to do given the jack's schematic,

   http://www.cui.com/pdffiles/RCJ-41XX.pdf

The manufacturer's part number is RCJ-412233.  Referring to the above data sheet,
pins 1 and 4 should be going to ground.   So the question then is, are pins 2 & 3 tied
to the same trace and pins 5 & 6 tied to the same trace?  If so, then the left jacks are
indeed the same signal and the right jacks are both the other signal.

Or, simpler yet, if you have an multimeter with continuity (or failing that, resistance),
you can simply check and see: do the two inner pins on the left hand jacks have
continuity (near zero resistance like 0.2 ohms -- the typical resistance of the test
leads, etc.).  If so, they are the same channel.

Dan


BobM

Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #2 on: 9 Oct 2007, 06:00 pm »
Or best yet - update this modular jack to better quality gold plated RCA's.

Good luck,
Bob

hagtech

Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #3 on: 9 Oct 2007, 06:41 pm »
Yes, that is the right place to clip.  Yes, the color coding is wrong.

jh

ecir38

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Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #4 on: 10 Oct 2007, 05:05 pm »
Thanks, I doctored this up with a white paint pen and a red sharpie I had. Came out pretty good.

tubesforever

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Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #5 on: 13 Oct 2007, 06:22 am »
hey ECIR38....where are you on your Clarinet build?

I am thinking of building one myself.  I am very interested in how yours is coming along.

Cheers!

ecir38

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Re: Couple Clarinet questions
« Reply #6 on: 13 Oct 2007, 03:03 pm »
I bought the Piccolo, Cornet2 and Clarinet at the same time. The Piccolo and Cornet2 are done. I looks like i will finish the Clarinet around Tuesday and hopefully have the decals for the Coronet and Clarinet done before next weekend. My goal is fire all of them up next weekend to start the burn in.

This is my first build like this so i just took my time to make sure everything goes smooth. As you know already these kits are hard to mess up thanks to Jim's excellant layout and instructions. The only upgrades for the C & C were the Auricaps, other upgrades will come later.

It will be tough to give my impressions since this will be a new system going in a dedicated room. My current sytem is in the family room is way to long to list. On a short note the analog in the family room is a SL1200 with a DL103R, Jolida JD9, hooked up to a Nuforce AVP 16. This new setup should blow my current analog setup away. A differant turntable is in the works too.
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