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Repair & Calibration
Keeping analog hardware accurate, stable and honest — principle over instruction.
Everything in Repair & Calibration
Each piece states what feeds it and what it feeds. Nothing here is numbered, and any of them can be the first one you read.
- Fed by 6
1V/Oct: What Calibration Is Actually Doing
The trimmer on your oscillator isn't magic — it's correcting a predictable error in exponential conversion.
- Fed by 2
What the Trimmers Are Actually For
Most trimmers exist because components aren't perfect — and a trimmer is a calibrated apology for that fact.
- Loose jack
When to Stop and Send It
Some faults are yours to fix. Others will fix you first.
- Loose jack
Reading a PCB Without the Datasheet
You have the board in front of you. Here is how to start making sense of it.
- Loose jack
Warm-Up, Cool-Down, Drift
The pitch wanders for ten minutes, then settles — and the reason is physics, not a calibration error.
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