Phonoclone and VSPS Group Buys

[rjm]

3 kits left

Will ship later this week to those who have already paid by then.

[rjm]

All kits are sold.

Thanks!

Richard

[rjm]

Looking in my parts box I found an unused set of Rhys' phonoclone boards that I bought and P-A kindly sent to me. Unfortunately they arrived about 8 months too late for me to make any use of them. If anyone wants them they are available at a discount price of $10 for the pair including shipping.

The parts numbers are not marked on the silk screen (his mistake), and some capacitors are marked backwards (my mistake), and BCE rather than ECB transistors are shown (nobodies fault, the now standard BD35-BD36 transistors were adopted later) but I will send a printout of the board layout with the boards showing the part numbers and everything correct for the latest BOM.

I also have a set of assembled Phonoclone 3 (32e) boards as pictured for sale for $150.

[rjm]

Assembled boards and Rhys' set are both sold.

While the VSPS Kit is still available, no further orders for VSPS300 boards, Phonoclone 3 boards, or parts will be taken until January.

Merry Christmas!

[rjm]

Got the new batch of VSPS300 and Phonoclone 3 boards back from pcbcart today.

The VSPS 300i is unchanged from previous. The Phonoclone 3 is a (slightly) revised layout, and the first set of Phonoclone 3 boards to source from pcbcart. Like the VSPS 300 and VSPS Kit boards they are black in color with double thickness 70 um copper traces.

Changelog for the 35b Phonoclone boards:

- removal of RF suppression cap C0 at the input (confused people)
- addition of a dedicated GND pad to connect the board to the chassis (less confusing than asking people to make that connection from the COM wire)
- C1 and C2 now have an extra set of 5mm spaced pads to accommodate Wima capacitors. (more flexibility in component choice)
- a number of components were moved slightly to reduce crowding.

The new layout can be downloaded from my homepage, here.

[WDYSUN]

hello Richard,

do you have in mind to sell kits for the revised boards?

Pietro

Originally Posted by rjm

Got the new batch of VSPS300 and Phonoclone 3 boards back from pcbcart today.
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The new layout can be downloaded from my homepage, here.

[rjm]

It's too much work, and too much money to keep as inventory, so if I do it at all it will be as a limited subscription once a year around Xmas.

I've just shipped six. There are four more Phonoclone 3 kits with new boards ready for the new year. That will be all until next December. Price is $105 US.

Note: no orders will be processed until after Jan 15th, but you can email me to reserve a kit of you want.

[rjm]

The boards are back from pcbcart. This is what the new Phonoclone 35b looks like in the balck livery...



The VSPS300i is unchanged from before:

[rjm]

Today the 50th VSPS was sold. That's half of the 100 kits that were put together. A major milestone that I've been looking forward to for some time.

Thanks everyone!

[samoloko]

can you provide BOM for phonoclone 3
I can not open following file http://phonoclone.com/files/pcb-bom.zip