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Please think of quitting the habit to use too large parts dangling in the air certainly when they carry high voltages. Build stuff so that it won't damage itself when putting it a bit too hard on a table. If the chosen way of building does not allow that then it was the wrong method. Either use parts with the right footprint or redesign the PCB to allow larger footprint parts. Learning to work with KiCAD and JLCPCB may open a new world to you!
https://www.kicad.org/
Nice transparent knobs on those RK27.
Please think of quitting the habit to use too large parts dangling in the air certainly when they carry high voltages. Build stuff so that it won't damage itself when putting it a bit too hard on a table. If the chosen way of building does not allow that then it was the wrong method. Either use parts with the right footprint or redesign the PCB to allow larger footprint parts. Learning to work with KiCAD and JLCPCB may open a new world to you!
https://www.kicad.org/
Nice transparent knobs on those RK27.
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"to use too large parts dangling in the air certainly when they carry high voltages."
But Momma - that's where the fun is!
Thanks for the advise. Agreed with the part hanging in the air. They're not carrying high voltage only 260 VDC so don't worry (ha ha ha). I got the nice looking transparent chicken head knobs from Hihicollective.
If your device is defective after putting it on a table maybe the fun is gone. Building well sounding stuff that is technically, electrically and mechanically solid/rigid is a nice and rewarding challenge and not the path of least resistance as followed by many. Pride of your own creation (that possibly even outlives you) is what will follow and that is priceless. Also keep attention to using metal casings connected to PE for RF shielding and safety. In the tube era there were not billions of smart phones, bluetooth and wireless internet (to name a few) around.
Good luck here, I think you will like it.
Good luck here, I think you will like it.
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260V is just below, but almost into the range where your body doesn't know to let go - and a DC voltage burn at that potential is not fun. But keep calm and carry on--always be safe. It's not the volts that will kill you, it's the joules. Watch out for those capacitors. It seems like you are a fan of double-stick tape and keeping everything down while you are prototyping the next great design! Maybe think about a plexiglass shield, and as J-P says, your own circuit board isn't a bad thing.