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====== Building Elektrosluch Mini City ====== | ====== Building Elektrosluch Mini City ====== | ||
+ | //Updated 8. 10. 2017: Step 12 and 17// | ||
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===== Required tools ===== | ===== Required tools ===== | ||
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- | 6. **Solder in the four polymer capacitors.** Beware of their polarity, minus (-) is marked | + | 6. **Solder in the four polymer capacitors.** Beware of their polarity, minus (-) is marked |
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- | 12. **Now it is time to attach the battery holder to the bottom.** Make sure that leads are cut as short as possible, so they won't make accidental contacts with the holder. Use the tape to attach the holder as pictured.</ | + | 12. ⚠️ __This step is omitted with newer version of the kit and the battery holder gets attached to the extra protective acrylic part at the bottom. See step 17.__ **Now it is time to attach the battery holder to the bottom.** Make sure that leads are cut as short as possible, so they won't make accidental contacts with the holder. Use the tape to attach the holder as pictured.</ |
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- | 13. (Optional) | + | 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, | + | 14. **Check one more time if all the polarities (capacitors, |
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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.</ | + | 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.</ | + | 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 September 2017 and onwards have **extra acrylic cover** for the bottom of the circuit board. Attach it as pictured.</ | ||
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- | 17. **Voilá!** Enjoy your new Elektrosluch!</ | + | 18. **Voilá!** Enjoy your new Elektrosluch!</ |
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