{"id":348,"date":"2025-04-03T21:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:11:04","slug":"kassutronics-quantizer-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elliottjohnson.net\/blog\/kassutronics-quantizer-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Kassutronics Quantizer Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Kassutronics Pitch Quantizer<\/a> was the first true SDIY project I undertook. I’ve soldered lots of kits going back in the MOTM days, but this involved sourcing all of the parts and assembling the module. There was a major hurdle to make sure that all of the components were correct and would fit annnd I had very limited SMD experence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Functionally it worked the first time I powered it on, but I did have a few bad connections on the shift registers used for illuminating the LED buttons. Also there was a later board modification<\/a> required to make sure 12v didn’t leak out when plugging in the 2nd gate output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disassembling the panel and reflowing the SMD chip packages did the trick to get everything illumimating<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A quick slice of a trace with a razor blade and soldering in a “bodge resistor” and the quantizer was back to two channels of awesomeness… now I’m seriously thinking of upping the resistance on those eye bleedingly bright blue LEDs!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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