This may be an obvious one, but I started doing this a while ago and it helps. When building kits, I feel I waste time after soldering in one component, and then hunting down the next one. Then I started laying them out ahead of time, which helped a lot,…

I get a lot of e-mails asking about hooking up patchbays to bend points. Here are a couple different methods. Remember – you can expand these ideas across multiple patch panels, hook up switches and pots in between, etc. A) In this method, each RCA jack is wired/soldered to an…

This is for a large 20 key keypad, but the theory works the same for smaller keypads. You can use an ohm meter to see which rows & columns get connected with each button press.