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====== Building Elektrosluch Mini City ====== | ====== Building Elektrosluch Mini City ====== | ||
+ | //Updated 2. 10. 2017: Step 17// | ||
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===== Required tools ===== | ===== Required tools ===== | ||
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- | 5. Push the potentiometer onto the board until it snaps into place and solder it in.</ | + | 5. Push the **potentiometer** onto the board until it snaps into place and solder it in.</ |
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- | 7. **Solder in the two electrolytic | + | 6. **Solder in the four polymer |
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- | 8. **Put the knob on the potentiometer** (notice | + | 7. Remove |
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- | 9. Next **place the double sided sticky pads on the " | + | |
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- | 10. **Place the inductors**, so they are held by the sticky pads. Solder them in.</ | + | 8. Prepare your **LED**. If you want it to appear as on the photos (as a city light above the street), shape it as pictured. Be careful about the polarity – longer lead is ⊕ (positive).</ |
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- | 11. **Pop-in the integrated circuit chip into the socket.** Make sure you're placing it with the U shaped cutout towards to the antennae, as pictured. It might be necessary to change the angle of its legs so they fit snuggly. You can realign them easily by pressing them against a table.</ | + | 9. Solder |
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- | + | 10. (Optional) Pre-tin the leads of the battery connector | |
- | 12. **Solder in the LED.** Use the provided heat-shrink tubing to cover the LED legs. **The longer leg goes into to the right side hole.** Once placed, bend the LED as you see fit. | + | |
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- | 13. **Solder | + | |
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- | 14. (Optional) **Cover | + | 11. Pull the wires through |
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- | 15. **Check one more time if all the polarities (chip, capacitors, battery connector, battery) are correct.** Reversing | + | |
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- | 16. **Check whether | + | |
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- | 17. **Now it is time to attach | + | |
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- | 18. **Insert | + | 12. **Now it is time to attach |
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- | 19. **Attach | + | 13. Cover the battery with attached LOM sticker. This protects from parts on the board accidentaly shorting on the battery metallic body.\\ |
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+ | 14. **Check one more time if all the polarities (capacitors, | ||
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- | 20. **Voilá!** Enjoy your new Elektrosluch!</ | + | This is how it should look from the side.</ |
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+ | 15. Put the **knob** on the potentiometer. It requires a bit of pressure, make sure you're holding the pot and pressing it against it, not against the whole device. | ||
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+ | **Check whether the LED lights up.** Plug-in your headphones, turn the potentiometer almost all the way up and **listen if you can hear the buzzing and humming of the electricity** around you from both channels.</ | ||
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+ | 16. Attach the **front cover** using the 8 screws and 4 stand-offs. The front cover has a plastic film on both sides for protection – peel it off for more shiny look!</ | ||
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+ | 17. Eleketrosluch Mini City kits shipped at the end of 2017 and onwards have **extra acrylic cover** for the bottom of the circuit board. Attach it as pictured.</ | ||
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+ | 18. **Voilá!** Enjoy your new Elektrosluch!</ | ||
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