printed construction manual?

by **no-fi** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:16 am

#181 just arrived at my door today.
I'm very excited (though won't have time to start assembling till the weekend at the earliest.. and looking at everyone's take on high hfe transistors, maybe I'll wait till after I've ordered a bunch of those for sorting through?)

Anyway - I just sat down to count/check tha parts off against the BOM, and I'm feeling a paper construction manual would have really been handy, 1) for ticking stuff off on. And... 2) well.... for having on the desk when soldering.

So, is there meant to be a printed construction manual shipped with this kit, or do I plonk my laptop down next to the iron on my soldering bench and hope I don't burn it accidentally?

by **zero01101** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:55 am

i just printed out my own...

by **no-fi** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 11:04 am

Aaah.. fair enough.

Did the HTML file came out onto paper format OK? I guess that even if its messy, it'd be usable enough.

All I really need is the complete BOM to do my parts check with. Damn, I really wish I had a printer at home right now!

by **zero01101** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:21 pm

it came out quite usable, a few words got chopped off here and there but nothing thats going to destroy the instructions... i did mine at work, weve got a copier that prints via network

by **subatomic** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:26 pm

zero01101 wrote:it came out quite usable, a few words got chopped off here and there but nothing thats going to destroy the instructions... i did mine at work, weve got a copier that prints via network

http://www.subatomicglue.com/x0xl0g/

you can kind of see how I printed mine...

- 1 fab manual (each section printed in booklet form, then binder clipped all sections together, edited html ahead of time to remove left side table of contents.)
- 1 user manual (booklet printed)
- 1 mods manual (just the mods page in booklet form)
- 4 pages of schematics (chopped in photoshop and blown up for readability)

printer is a canon, which has booklet printing in the driver, it's nice.

by **bicky** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 12:29 pm

i've just made a more condensed BOM of 9 pages in pdf

i'll put it online and place a link here in an hour or so.
(still at work, can't upload from here... bloody firewall...)

by **bicky** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 2:15 pm

here's the link:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf

ladyada, maybe you can put it on your site?
or in the wiki, jonnay?

by **subatomic** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:27 pm

bicky wrote:here's the link:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf

ladyada, maybe you can put it on your site?
or in the wiki, jonnay?

Your resistors are in black and white in the PDF (at least using my acrobat reader...). I think people would rather use the web page and print in color. I found it to be really fast and useful rather than use a resistor color code chart (maybe I'm one of the few people that don't memorize that?).

by **bicky** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 3:49 pm

subatomic wrote:Your resistors are in black and white in the PDF (at least using my acrobat reader...). I think people would rather use the web page and print in color. I found it to be really fast and useful rather than use a resistor color code chart (maybe I'm one of the few people that don't memorize that?).

yeah, i noticed too, that's also why i wrote the colors also in text.
i dunno why the resistors became gray because other pictures remained in color.

i still have the doc-file and there, everything is in color so i'll try again with some different pdf-making settings.

and here is a nice tool for checking resistor color codes,
it's freeware but it's in german...
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/ohmv1.zip

by **Guest** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:08 pm

i tried some different settings and now the resistors are in color,
the link is still the same:
http://bicky.studentenweb.org/x0x/x0xb0x_bom.pdf

by **experimental** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:12 pm

I have Word Doc files of all of the sections that have been adjusted to print correctly-

PM me and i will email if you would like-

by **Jonnay** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:01 am

Aight. The BPM PDF is on the wiki, in the main fabrication section.

Yaknow, you guys can contribute to the wiki too, I don't have to do all the work..

(yes, even upload files!)

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