Take precautions with regard to electrostatic discharge (ESD) safety. Handling components should be done
in electrostatically safe environment. Use personal and workplace grounding. Any discharge (even a minor
one) from body to a component may permanently damage it.
Our PCBs have silkscreened both component values and designators nevertheless we highly recommend
you to print out files with component placement before you start assembly of the module. And, please, at
least take a look on this manual!
Some components are marked as NU (not used)
–
leave those unpopulated! Some components are
market as OPTION (those are for optional modifications)
–
leave those unpopulated for now.
ASSEMBLY
1
Solder horizontally placed resistors, diodes and ferrite beads on both PCBs (Controls board and Main board)! Pay
attention on orientation of diodes! Also, solder IC sockets on the main board!
2
Solder IC sockets and capacitors of both boards! Solder resettable fuses on the Controls board!
GUIDE TO ASSEMBLY OF ERICA SYNTHS BASSLINE
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When nothing is
patched into 1V/oct
input, it’s
normalled to
+12V thru the R12,
which defines the
initial tune of the VCO.
You may want to
adjust it to your taste,
when calibrating the
VCO, therefore we
recommend to solder
R12 on the other side
of the PCB
! Increasing
the R12, the initial
tune of the VCO will
decrease.
