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exxos wrote: 14 Oct 2025 17:07 I think Molly might have missed me while I was at CL4 :)

We had 3 or 4 hours of the two cats taking it in turns to lie on us & demand fusses through Saturday night...obviously while we were trying to sleep!
:? :roll:

JezC wrote: 14 Oct 2025 21:13 We had 3 or 4 hours of the two cats taking it in turns to lie on us & demand fusses through Saturday night...obviously while we were trying to sleep!
:? :roll:

Molly wakes me up every few hours when I stop at dawns on weekends.. She wants a fuss.. She's not bothered during day :roll:

Yup, sounds like cats in general...they only bother when you are trying to sleep or do something else...

With the monies generated from CL4, I was able to afford buying myself a better digital microscope thingy :)

The smaller one I had before I couldn't really get very big boards on it because the rear of the stand was always in the way. So I went with a similar thing which is on a farm so I can literally get anything underneath this now! Mostly I was thinking about when I re-solder the big SMT chip on my Milan, I wanted a better way of seeing what I was doing...

So anyway here are some pictures and probably no particular order.. Instruction manual was completely useless. They've missed things out and fuse things a lot! :roll:

We can also see the dodgy repairs @JezC Falcon SDMA chip has had before at some point..

And there was no flames or fireworks in this episode.

:shock:

Oooh. That looks good.

PhilC wrote: 16 Oct 2025 16:38 And there was no flames or fireworks in this episode.

:shock:

Yeah was trying not to kill @JezC Falcon.. I haven't got a grand to buy it if it dies :lol: :roll:

exxos wrote: 16 Oct 2025 16:41 Yeah was trying not to kill @JezC Falcon.. I haven't got a grand to buy it if it dies :lol: :roll:

Onlt a grand @exxos ? If you can PM where I can buy one for that amount, i'll try to get second one (then I can run both Logic Audio Falcon & Cubase Audio Falcon without killling the cart connector)...

My wife was being told it was worth around £3k at CL 4 by someone...so she was asking why I'd be prepared to loan it to you (instead of selling it and taking her on holiday or something)... :lol: :roll:

JezC wrote: 17 Oct 2025 09:08 Onlt a grand @exxos ? If you can PM where I can buy one for that amount, i'll try to get second one (then I can run both Logic Audio Falcon & Cubase Audio Falcon without killling the cart connector)...

My wife was being told it was worth around £3k at CL 4 by someone...so she was asking why I'd be prepared to loan it to you (instead of selling it and taking her on holiday or something)... :lol: :roll:

That be why she wasn't happy then..

3k for a falcon? They wasn't even going for that kitted up with a CT60? Madness eitherway.

Looks to me like that SDMA needs re-flowing at a bare minimum? Ideally a full removal, clean & re-install.