Ordering The Wrong Part: Hardware Woes
If I’d get a penny every time I ordered the wrong part I’d have enough to buy all the wrong parts. I’m rehousing a Realistic 1987 graphic hi-fi EQ into a rack enclosure. It uses inductors instead of gyrators, has a discrete make-up amplifier, runs on +43 V and sounds really good. Inductors have the vintage vibe factor because they were used in passive equalizers back in the day. With the high operating voltage it has headroom to spare. Not bad for a device which you could buy at your local Radio Shack. More on this EQ and the modifications I’m doing at a later date. I found a nice industrial rack enclosure by Fisher Elektronik at Reichelt in Germany. Now how do I attach my own faceplate? These enclosures are Eurocard-based and have a rail system in the front which fits an expensive rack-wide insert that has M2.5 threaded holes at distances according to the Eurocard DIN standard. Let’s talk about the Eurocard standard because it’s quite interesting. It was created in the ‘70s and...