Open zhblue opened 3 years ago
the extra 470 ohm resister can be used parallelly on the outer two pin of volume control, make volume adjust more smooth.
I had same issue, that me get almost crazy, but resolution is pretty quite simple :) Only what you need is change oscilator circuit from this: , to this:
After that, you get perfectly stable frequency +/-1Hz.
Interesting i had a batch of SN7404n (ordered 5) ..4x worked with 470R.
..but 1x pcb needed both 470 replaced with a 4.7k.
I suspect anything above 1k will work more consistently.
Note (new builders):
These values must still be just downright incorrect. This card doesn't work right at all using all original mouser parts linked in the BOM. 1K resistors paired with a 100pf cap generate a TON of random noise and loud glitches and the FM music gets all corrupted at all times. When changing resistors to a higher value, the issue is fixed and I think this card works best with 4.7k resistors. What are these resistors even supposed to achieve and what is the configuration of the original Adlib card?
a second hand IC maked "sn7404n england" works fine with 470 ohm resister but a brandly new IC maked "74HC04" from JLC market need a 4.7k ohm resister to work with. i have no idea about why , just post here for people who might need it.