I've recently started buying SMD kits. Nine times out of ten, they don't amount to much. But it allows me to get proficient with tiny surface parts and like you, If it doesn't work you have a board to diagnose the issue. I get a great sense of achievement doing that. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
The last Heathkit I remember building was an AM/FM clock radio with a fluorescent vacuum tube display clock radio; I say fluorescent because it required a higher voltage than typical 7-segment LED displays in the early to mid-80s. Used it till it did not survive a move to another home.
Kits are fun. I built several Heathkits in my teens. My first audio kit was a Hafler DH220, used that for many years. I recently built a Velleman UV meter, and that works great. Most recent kit is a chineese transistor curve tracer. Xraytony had one that he modified for higher output, and switching to compare two transistors. So I followed his instructions. I t works great for what it cost to build. The fun is modifying to make them better. So yeah, more kit builds would be great to watch. Have a Merry, and a great NEW YEAR!.
Always enjoy your videos Trevor. I too would enjoy seeing how you put together an audio dummy load. I've discovered that as soon as you move beyond just tacking a resistor across the speaker terminals, things can get pretty tricky, especially with respect to managing the "ground". I'd love to see your thought process on it. Thanks for the great content! - JRH
Building kits is so therapeutic especially when they work . being from Australia i would like to mention Silicon Chip magazine its great .You can get it in paper format or digital. cheers
Trevor your videos are never boring. You're right it is a good way to kill some time when it's cold outside. Thanks for another great vid!! Hope your Christmas was Wonderful!
Way, way back as a youth, I built a Radio Shack/Archer "Electronic Reverb" from a kit. That's when I learned to solder. Fun times. Thanks for the Christmas content, Trevor!
Hello Trevor nice kit build. I enjoy building kits and usually do one myself over Christmas but I missed out this year. I like your distortion analyser very nice ! Best regards Chris
I quite like the XR2206. Managed to find some on UncleAli that will work up to the datasheet DCV and I can get them up to 3MHz. Granted the stability is hardly crystal stable at that frequency, still not bad considering it far exceeds the datasheet. Made a very handy battery power Audio Generator with a 1 Watt amp chip. Line level Hi impedance out and Low impedance out for testing speakers. Didn't use the kits, made my own boards.
The 300W amplifire seems like a kit to keep for when you're feeling down and need some cheering up, seeing how crappy it is Oh yes, please combine those 2 kits! hehehehe
Kits are always fun especially when you can improve their design to make them better ! I remember the old Radio Shack kits, I bought a few bare boards and tried scavenging parts from broken TV's and radios etc but always had to go back to the shop to buy the bits I couldn't find for free ! I've built a few Velleman kits too, they were really useful when I was in bands and helping out repairing P.A. systems. Often the units were so badly abused that I would have to replace the innards and using Velleman kits was an economical option. They had a very wide range in the UK and were fairly good quality if assembled right.
It took me a few years and I learned the color codes for resistors. And then these new small components in blue background with pale colors make it impossible to decipher the colors. Red is close to orange and blue matches black. Thankfully we have testers and multi-meters to quickly identify them. Merry Christmas.
In this case the fourth band is the multiplier, and brown-black-black-black says the multiplier is zero. 10 to the power of zero is 1, so forget the multiplier, it is one-zero-zero = 100. But I get you, I buy 1000 resistors and grab my hairs when I try to read them too. For me it is the blue background colour that distorts the band colours. Most problems between green, blue and purple, they should be more saturated, also because colourful parts are attractive and inspiring. And they should use a light blue as background for the metal film's, like they use the light brown for the carbon's background. Merry Christmas.
thats what i need is a multiplex signal generator . sg165 is getting very expensive and they are at the age where they need some sort of repair/restoration i dont know what else to get
What frequency are you planning on feeding into the stereo generator? They usually generate their own 38 and 19KHz and all you need is audio ...what evil plan do you have in mind ? ;)
Never any interest in these build kits or buying 1 already built, however.................enjoyed watch this video, go figure. 1st time seeing someone do a ribbon cable, quite interesting. Chinese, so there will be functional obsolesces and lots of distortion.
OOOH you again.... if you do not like long video's then watch something else and stop your bugus clickbait claims it are people like you who is making youtube a bad place
I've recently started buying SMD kits. Nine times out of ten, they don't amount to much. But it allows me to get proficient with tiny surface parts and like you, If it doesn't work you have a board to diagnose the issue. I get a great sense of achievement doing that. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I do the same with those surfaces mount kits, it is a cheap way to get some practice
The last Heathkit I remember building was an AM/FM clock radio with a fluorescent vacuum tube display clock radio; I say fluorescent because it required a higher voltage than typical 7-segment LED displays in the early to mid-80s. Used it till it did not survive a move to another home.
Kits are fun. I built several Heathkits in my teens. My first audio kit was a Hafler DH220, used that for many years. I recently built a Velleman UV meter, and that works great. Most recent kit is a chineese transistor curve tracer. Xraytony had one that he modified for higher output, and switching to compare two transistors. So I followed his instructions. I t works great for what it cost to build. The fun is modifying to make them better. So yeah, more kit builds would be great to watch. Have a Merry, and a great NEW YEAR!.
Always enjoy your videos Trevor. I too would enjoy seeing how you put together an audio dummy load. I've discovered that as soon as you move beyond just tacking a resistor across the speaker terminals, things can get pretty tricky, especially with respect to managing the "ground". I'd love to see your thought process on it. Thanks for the great content! - JRH
Building kits is so therapeutic especially when they work . being from Australia i would like to mention Silicon Chip magazine its great .You can get it in paper format or digital. cheers
Trevor your videos are never boring. You're right it is a good way to kill some time when it's cold outside. Thanks for another great vid!! Hope your Christmas was Wonderful!
Way, way back as a youth, I built a Radio Shack/Archer "Electronic Reverb" from a kit. That's when I learned to solder. Fun times.
Thanks for the Christmas content, Trevor!
I like to see how you build the audio dummy load. I enjoy all of your videos, whether they are long or short.
Merry Christmas, Trevor. Yes please, more kits!
Hello Trevor nice kit build. I enjoy building kits and usually do one myself over Christmas but I missed out this year. I like your distortion analyser very nice ! Best regards Chris
I quite like the XR2206. Managed to find some on UncleAli that will work up to the datasheet DCV and I can get them up to 3MHz. Granted the stability is hardly crystal stable at that frequency, still not bad considering it far exceeds the datasheet.
Made a very handy battery power Audio Generator with a 1 Watt amp chip. Line level Hi impedance out and Low impedance out for testing speakers.
Didn't use the kits, made my own boards.
The 300W amplifire seems like a kit to keep for when you're feeling down and need some cheering up, seeing how crappy it is
Oh yes, please combine those 2 kits! hehehehe
Kits are always fun especially when you can improve their design to make them better !
I remember the old Radio Shack kits, I bought a few bare boards and tried scavenging parts from broken TV's and radios etc but always had to go back to the shop to buy the bits I couldn't find for free !
I've built a few Velleman kits too, they were really useful when I was in bands and helping out repairing P.A. systems. Often the units were so badly abused that I would have to replace the innards and using Velleman kits was an economical option. They had a very wide range in the UK and were fairly good quality if assembled right.
Trevor, all your videos are good. I learn a lot with you.
I have built the 12 channel audio mixer from velleman in total it was like 40 kits to make up that audio mixer was my favorite
Merry Christmas! Yes, I would like to see the amp load build!
Cheers Trevor for all the videos happy Christmas.
It took me a few years and I learned the color codes for resistors. And then these new small components in blue background with pale colors make it impossible to decipher the colors. Red is close to orange and blue matches black. Thankfully we have testers and multi-meters to quickly identify them. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year's to you and yours.
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you. Please do some more of these..
Merry Christmas!
I would love to see the dummy load build. I would like to build one myself so I'm interested.
In this case the fourth band is the multiplier, and brown-black-black-black says the multiplier is zero. 10 to the power of zero is 1, so forget the multiplier, it is one-zero-zero = 100. But I get you, I buy 1000 resistors and grab my hairs when I try to read them too. For me it is the blue background colour that distorts the band colours. Most problems between green, blue and purple, they should be more saturated, also because colourful parts are attractive and inspiring. And they should use a light blue as background for the metal film's, like they use the light brown for the carbon's background.
Merry Christmas.
I also build kits when the weather is nice. 😉
Merry Christmas, and keep on making good videos, ;) thank you
Merry Christmas
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thats what i need is a multiplex signal generator . sg165 is getting very expensive and they are at the age where they need some sort of repair/restoration i dont know what else to get
Hey, what kind of vice is that? It’s perfect! Merry Christmas!
What frequency are you planning on feeding into the stereo generator? They usually generate their own 38 and 19KHz and all you need is audio ...what evil plan do you have in mind ? ;)
I built audio amplifiers, tuners etc. But my best kit was a Nascom 2 Z80 Computer.
The quality of that generator is so bad that is unusable in practice.
Never any interest in these build kits or buying 1 already built, however.................enjoyed watch this video, go figure. 1st time seeing someone do a ribbon cable, quite interesting. Chinese, so there will be functional obsolesces and lots of distortion.
REPORTEDR FOR ABUSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DID NOT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE TO THIS !!!! CLICKBAIT
what clickbait??? it says kit build and that is what he is doing?? just go and bother other people
STOP SENDING LONG VIDEOS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OOOH you again.... if you do not like long video's then watch something else and stop your bugus clickbait claims it are people like you who is making youtube a bad place
@@Dutch-linux He never likes where he is. Still, he always stays. It must be hard.....
@@Dutch-linux. I agree with you, don’t pay any attention to this low life idiot, that is exactly what he wants