gstew wrote:
Glad yours is on the way. VERY interested in what you come up with on the Arduino remote, perhaps a single unit that will control the Soekris SDD (filter changing and normal/inverted) and the SDT (ESPECIALLY if it could enable fast-forward/reverse) would be very interesting.
I'm watching what everyone else does to these. I added Panasonic SMD PPS caps across all of the post-reg electrolytic and damped the metal shield over the reader and all of the electrolytics. All that plus some run-in time made it smoother.
The Panasonics were my low-cost alternative to the Sun-Ring copper foil PPS caps, which I am sure are better, but I had the Panasonics here and as such, the price was right.
Greg in Mississippi
You'd probably get a bigger improvement by using lifepo4 batteries in place of the 3.3 and 2.5 v regs on the board.
There is one 1.2v reg that lifepo4 won't do directly. It's pretty easy to make a 1.2v reg though, I did it for the FPGA on the Soekris dac.
I forget about soekris control, but that should be pretty easy, just need to send rs 232 commands from the arduino to the dac.
And play, ff and reverse should be pretty easy too, it is just grounding the pins at the remote connector.
I would also like to be able to read what's on the screen, not sure if that's possible or not.
The harder part is controlling the arduino, if you don't have a PC connected to it. You can make an arduino read a IR remote, but I haven't tried that yet.
Randy
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