More Setbacks

Not with the website, thank goodness. No, today I fried another decoder. According to Arthur at TCS, the CN-GP is rather sensitive to shorting, and that’s just what I did. So, it’s off for testing and replacement! The good news is, I shorted it out during a test-fitting, and so far it looks like [...]

Grumble.

Update 28 May: Things are mostly back to normal now. I even managed to recover most comments (not all—not mine). Only three images lost to the ether, too. Now I have a rather rigorous backup process in place, too. So, yay for that.

Update 26 May: Please stand by while I delete everything else! [...]

Doing Things the Easy Way

Breadboard circuit

After success building circuit described here on breadboard, I began construction of something more permanent this past weekend. But, as I did so, two events conspired to frustrate my efforts. First was the discovery, thanks to a member of the JNSForum, of the Lenz LF101XF function decoder, which does precisely what [...]