no more $5 shipping for PCBs :(
I can no longer send PCBs & panels as international airmail letters.
Just got back from the Post Office, where they told me. Everything that has "commercial value" has to go as a parcel........even a single sloth PCB weighing 4 grams. So the USD5 shipping option is no longer available, for now everything goes with tracking/signed delivery for USD20. I may have to tweak this in time, will see how it goes (it costs a minimum USD31 to ship to some EU countries)
Sorry about this..........anyone want 300+ manilla folders?
For Australians, all shipping is still free.
Mail updates…again
Melbourne is having a 2nd wave of C19 so is under strict lock-down. This means any mail passing through there will be delayed, even domestic mail has recently taken 2-3 weeks longer than normal. Of course, they are working to sort it out, best to keep an eye on this page - https://auspost.com.au/about-us/news-media/important-updates/coronavirus/coronavirus-international-updates#international
Mail Updates
Mail to the EU and USA has mostly been arriving in 2-3 weeks since June. Though there may be exceptions. Auspost cannot ship to Russia or Ukraine at the moment. Please see this page for Auspost updates and scroll down for country specific information.
C-19 Delivery times
Just to give some idea of postage times these days.
From the NLC builders Guild:
PCB letter to Netherlands - 6 weeks
PCB letter to Germany - 1 week (!)
Expresspost to USA - 7 weeks
PCB letter to France - 6 weeks
PCB letter to the USA - 2.5 weeks
PCB letter to UK - 2 weeks
PCB letter to UK - 2 weeks
Parcel to the USA - 9 weeks
PCB letter to Canada - 4 weeks
PCB letter to Canada - 4 weeks
Parcel to the UK - 1 week
update 10 June 2020:
3 parcels to Italy all arrived this week, took 9-10 weeks
PCB letter to Canada - 8 weeks
Parcel to USA - 9 weeks
Parcel to Italy - 10 weeks
Parcel to Russia - not accepted, Auspost will not ship to Russia at the moment.
PCB letter to USA - 4 weeks
Update 27 June - There are a few parcels sent late March/early April that are still in transit. Unfortunately these ones would have been shunted into a shipping container and loaded onto a freighter, so not lost just having an extended sea cruise.
c-19 MAIL DELAYS
Firstly thanks to everybody who has been so patient waiting for their deliveries.
The latest news I have is that mail is traveling to North America and the EU by ship, so expect 8-12 weeks for delivery.
update (28/5) - Some PCB letters have been getting to the EU in 2 weeks, it is a bit random.
I can send by DHL or UPS but these options are very expensive. A recent shipment to Dubai of 5 modules cost USD200 with DHL. Please contact me directly if you want to arrange this.
A parcel of three 8HP modules to the USA, with UPS, cost USD65.
The best place to check for updates on Auspost C-19 delays is here.
1U PiLLs
This is a raw 12HP 1U version of the Mobius PiLL. It uses two cross-coupled Phase locked loop (PLL) ICs that go in and out of chaotic zones at audio rates. If you like making electronic noise, this module is for you. Oh yeh, it has vactrols.
It is a pretty simple build and capable of a wide variety of sounds. The demo below is my usual noisy effort but it can be tamed if you choose to feed it CVs from sequencers.
There are 5 inputs, everything affects everything:
FM IN - feeds both PLL ICs
CV Range 1 & 2 - these control the vactrols. The control circuits are very simple.....a resistor and a vactrol!
CV 1 & 2 - these inject a signal into the VCO control input, shove in anything from audio to CV rates and see what you get.
The 4 outputs are from the PLL VCOs and the phase comparators, all are pulse/square waves running from 0-approx 5V.
Matte black and white panels for Pulp Logic and Intellijel formats are available, please specify when ordering.
Please note the white Pulp Logic panel has the manufacturing code on the front, I paid extra for this not to happen but the manufacturer did it anyway and gave me my $1.50 back. It would be a greater crime to chuck the panels because of this, so it is there, use some whiteout if you really hate it. In the same order I specified gloss black panels and got matte, also specified white PCBs and got one batch of white and one batch of green. Somebody was a bit unfocused that day.
Dual LFO/VCO
This is an upgrade for the NLC thru-hole dual LFO and the thru-hole dual VCO.
The circuit is based on the thru-hole dual VCO but can be switched to operate in 3 ranges; 15Hz-10kHz, 1 minute per cycle to 25Hz (approx) and down to 20 minutes per cycle for the slowest.
Both have CV inputs with attenuating pots and sync inputs. The sync is quite hard and attempts to momentarily ground the timing capacitor, how successful this is depends on what else is going on. At slow LFO rates it works more like a wave-shaper.
The outputs are sine, stepped, square and triangle. The stepped outputs are S&H circuits sampling the sine-waves. They are clocked by the other oscillator, there is no external clock input :)
There is provision to install 1k tempco resistors if you want to try for 1V/oct tracking. Don't expect good tracking over more than 2 octaves tho, there are no matched transistors onboard. If such niceties are not so important, simply leave off the 1k tempcos and install regular 1k 0805 resistors on the bottom of the engine PCB.
