Thanks! I'll take a look at your vid later tonight!

Thank you! I, of course, think you'll have a great time, get some fun stuff to play with, learn things, and have a very satisfying pastime!

Thank you! It's a good kit to practice on, and actually useful when you're done!

They're very handy! But you have to make more, almost everyone is sold out!

@@CKHaunI have stock again and will be resupplying a lot of places soon :)

Thanks! A good kit, and it adds some nice grit if you need it!

@tofu_pilot this unit sounds FAN-TASTIC, I think you'll really like it when you're done. As I say in the description and in the vid, pay careful attention to the instructions for some parts placement (and ommision) you really want to get right.

@@CKHaun I am glad I got one! Thonk has only two left in stock now. I think I should get another, lol. I am so excited to hear it! I have 4 other not Serge kits I am going to assemble before I unwrap the Serge kit. Those are my practice kits I suppose. I want to brush up on my soldering skill/knowledge before going full hog on the VCFS. It was more than double the cost of the other modules. I am very hopeful that my kit also has the SMT alternative diodes that came with your kit. I can do decent THT but no SMT skills are in me at all. Not even a little.

Aw, give SMD a try! I actually find it faster than TH many times Might want to practice on something like this, a practice kit from Gikfun kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5PMXnqwYpiMj9Esi=n-s2sx23rDYvaiw0

@@CKHaun I own a different colored gikfun smt kit but I cannot understand how I can solder things that are so small that a single drop of solder would bridge 10-12 pin connections with ease. Maybe my tools are wrong but no soldering tip sold on the civilian market is even remotely small enough to solder one of the items that came included in my gikfun kit. not to mention that soldering wire itself can hold two of the little chips or diodes on the tip, like the tip of a pin sort of tip. The actual soldering wire is several times larger than what I am supposed to soldering. The things included that I am supposed to solder are small enough to sit inside of a typed letter o and not touch the letter. So after looking for about a year for the tool that could do the job, I just stopped looking. It's just not possible to find soldering tips that can produce a drop that is small enough, on the open market, or in that year I'd have found one. Perhaps defense contractors or the folks at the National Research Labs around the country have access to specialized gear but all I can find is an iron. And compared to the center of a typed letter o, irons and their tips are well past massive. Every tip is way way way too big to come close to touching only one, and not 6-8 pins simultaneously. I think at best all I will ever be able to manage is THT.

Thank you! And yeah, it's a little cramped, in my studio it's OK, but if I were performing live (which I haven't done in decades) it'd be a bit touchy when you're blending on the go.

It will drive a 4-8 ohm speaker, that’s really the only requirement. I found these tiny 8 ohm speakers on amazon, they might work for your project. www.amazon.com/Treedix-Full-Range-Advertising-JST-PH2-5mm-2-Electronic/dp/B0CJNB3CR2/ref=sr_1_7_sspa?crid=9RBBVPA303MN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.CinbAm5fISVSxGvmbBI3gtxY3EdvIGALXIBCBn4dxnt9iGbDSwcFVE3tx3G3IHsutj9Lb5Ule2_zyyBvfT7aktjxisLFSrgrIsLpjJWhlHhH8jxfv_ikv6C-WY2pjqAtRdZKst5M9fYDCf6VnaAvZIAZcx999Bubt-01nnG1NX63y-6jHS-UktMVQBu5pbN1puJ3Yrifi9Cl96ac2X7SntFM3VaoHVONqYj3yHOzcmI.QVyIAwzZW3M86PAvWbJVdhs34Y4JH1_QHuA1tylPwQc&dib_tag=se&keywords=Small%2B8%2Bohm%2Bspeaker&qid=1721658080&sprefix=small%2B8%2Bohm%2Bspeaker%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-7-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9tdGY&th=1

@@CKHaun thank you! 😊

I did, didn't I? "Standard"? No idea what my brain was doing. But if we went through and found all the errors in my vids we'd have quite a list :).

Just don't design in failure points, folks, that's all I ask.

True enough. But now-a-days we have the choice between digital routing and these old-school patch cords, so it’s really the best of times.

I do not think there is any non-volatile RAM in this one. Power off and everything you’ve done vanishes.

At least it’s a good front for sophistication, innit?

Thank you! On this one, I’d check your diodes first. Easy to reverse them (I catch myself on that all the time) and since there are so many one might have gone backwards.

There is no bill of materials for this kit. However, here’s an article from PopSci with all the parts you’d need. www.popsci.com/how-to-build-jacobs-ladder/

I emailed with Feedback Modules and he’s going to clean the instructions up when he can. Thanks for watching!

Oh yes, happens all the time. But I have burned my fingers *so many times* over the decades that I barely notice anymore. I should mention it, though, for those who aren't quite as foolish as me.

No I did not research anything. I buy stuff and mess with it. That's why it says 'C.K. tries' not 'C.K. reviews'. I don't do reviews, I grab things and see how useful to me they are right out of the box like, I dare say, a great many people. THa's my thing, if you want well researched and comprehensive reviews that ain't me.

If you were observant, you would have seen that after you put the nozzle back in the cradle, it started to decrease temperature as it cold off before shutting down and going into standby.

True enough.

I know, the speaker is a bit too far away. But that’s my setup right now.

Mine says 0 mF without a cap connected. And yeah, it's not a great unit and my multimeters do a fine job at cap value sensing, which is all I really care about.

Yeah, probably some sequential loop starting with the same seed each time, a 2 line gen.

Erratic might be good with this one, better randomizing :)

I wish. Very few opportunities.

Is it? I didn't put it on the tuner so I was just 'earing' the tones, not surprised I was wrong.

Thank you! I enjoy doing them and sharing them!

Thank you! I don't remember how I found them, but I'm glad I did, the web pages accompanying the kits are very useful.

Would you please post an Amazon or Alibaba listing so I can make sure I'm looking for the right one that you're interested in?

@@CKHaun YIHUA 948D basic version high frequency desoldering gun suck tin station vacuum desoldering station

Take a look at this one (got it after the one you just looked at). This is excellent, and will pull the solder out of relay holes very well, I highly recommend it. C.K. tries a GREAT Yihua 929D-V desoldering tool kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZvbfqagfb93bK8

@@CKHaun how much is this

US$39 on Amazon.

Just wait until I finish the next one! That I laid the theme down for a year ago and still ain’t done :)

Hm. It's not a standard o-ring, it's a molded piece of silicon, so no off-the-shelf replacement, probably only available through Yihua. I couldn't find it, might be best to post a question on the product page, they seem to be quick to respond.

@@CKHaun I had written an email to them no response yet

If they respond, please post here so we have a record of this for others!

Definitely a multi-use beast!

Thank you! And yeah, when I was younger I did ruin an iron accidentally by resting the iron on the cord, always look for high-temp silicon!

Hey R.K., thanks for stopping by! The Cell is next, have that one on order, be a while til the video on that goes live, got,lots ahead in the queue. Can't seem to find a Gates kit for sale anywhere, though.

@@CKHaun thanks again for the support. The CELL was a labor of love. Hope you enjoy!

I recorded this 2 years ago, the board and kit design are much older than that.

@CKHaun circuit design and board quality is one thing the parts bag inventory count before being sent to customer and instruction manual would be where the quality control would have ample time to correct. You have a parts inventory of your own. Many don't. The odd thing is throwing all the parts into a bowl without a count is where a lot wasted time begins. Otherwise, thanks for the review. I found it helpful.

You're right, an inventory is important. On my vids, though, I approach kits like a 12 year old impatient youngster would and just dive in. Different perspective.

This is a really good one. I tried another and couldn't get it to work, but this one is a champ, you'll have fun.

Great! That's a excellent practice kit, and glad you got your first re-work in!

Ese es el problema de eBay, los productos suelen desaparecer. este parece ser el mismo www.ebay.com/itm/335396488994?itmmeta=01HZHVC26G38AG3HS05J4CZ1QR&hash=item4e17304722:g:WL8AAOSwCtRmRs1L&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8IUTpDSOHSnvLWsLmVt0cuJa475XPQZEE8grK6dJHyJ%2Bn4UVIrvCIOZ6Kv4OGo2G%2Fk%2BVQi1OEbJFiX%2Fiq3ZQ5nxq3fC1ntoIU%2Fi8ZyKRqsrsAxOY5gkMskBKB0GBBloXLng8Oi4Z3a4GFNMgszkIQYYNS3xCF2O8zkBGIqb43uLkSDrzbxDfQ5%2BaoyQAJgUJ%2FoS9SFYNiznydJEcbsjo9Gbgsf9U%2BGlzKccyhGIyJo6HS9E62jsDVO0TiNg8TMiGSCr8pB9Ti%2FKdaPwxzKxafHzpwALQQLaj6E3UZcDW0DspNbohhQH795NrQadBK6CWDw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABFBMqqOwu_xj

@@CKHaun a sim legal!!!!!! o frete que está muito pesado!! mais é um excelente projeto!! Aqui no Brazil , não temos profissionais assim!!

O envio é tão alto! Mas acho que você vai gostar.

Fantastic!

It's a good little unit, though I will admit to squinting at the tiny text ;).

They're pretty good, yes. I did find Yihuas single-purpose 929D-V through-hole desolder tool to be head and shoulders above even this, it is a superior tool. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mZvbfqagfb93bK8

@@CKHaun@CKHaun, I just viewed your other video (thanks for the link), and yes, that looks like a nice piece of kit.

I was quite literally amazed (as you may be able to tell from the video) at how easily it worked and have used it multiple times since successfully.

Yes, he has a number of very thin ones, handy for a mobile skiff.

That's too bad! Check diode polarity next, I still put 'em in backwards sometimes.

@@CKHaun Thanks god its working, coupl eod days of resoldering but found that PT2399 was incorrectly plugged into the socket. not its fully tested and working as expected. Already love it

Excellent! And yeah, it's a fun unit.

Yes, I dialed it back to about 1/2 later in the vid and it worked better.

Thanks! Oh, I've had the xcelites for years, I love weller hand tools. They're just usually too long for the size kits I make on the channel. Now, if I do a guitar amp you'll see 'em in there attaching wires deep in a cab!

Thanks! Yeah, it's one of those tools you don't need often, but when you do it's great to have such a good oe at hand.

Hako's are fine machines, I have one of their solder stations. But, for me, the diameter of the iron is a bit too big, so I stick with my Weller, when you solder for hours a day little things matter.Also because Weller customer service treated me well 35 years ago. They are a bit pricey for the planned budget on this channel, but I'll see, maybe in the future.

No, the nozzles are slightly different diameters. One smaller, one larger, than the installed one.

@@CKHaun are the tips available separarately ?? if so .....thats cool

That I do not know. You might want to ask on the Amazon product page, they may be monitoring and answering.

I burn my fingers daily, gotten to the point that I don't really mind any more....

This will be a great complement to that solder station.

@@CKHaun Yes I'm sure it will be.

I think you'll love it. Used it last night on a "real" project and again, de-soldered no fuss in an instant.