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That's sweet! I'd never have thought one would need a password protected solder station but what the heck, why not. Wish I had the cash for one; can't beat a temp controlled iron.
  I have to replace my no-name adjustable solder station. it works OK but it's got a very odd size tip that is impossible to find a replacement for it.
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Yea 50W is way to high for ICs, really 25W is tops. Of course lead free solder is a real pain with a cooler iron. This iron is good for heavy wire and cable.
The other thing that caught my eye is "50W, 220-240V. Note: This is made for American outlets, if you are in a different country you may need an adaptor." WTF??? Do I have to plug it into the socket for my electric range? or the dryer outlet? Those are the only two 220V outlets in my house.
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I like the idea of a unity gain buffer; with just filter caps I have found the output of the 2A03 to be hot. I've never messed with expansion audio so I don't know what kind of levels you get from it but it would be nice to be able to balance the levels across the channels.
  I'm kind of both minds as to mixing; on the one hand an external mixer offers the best production control but there is a lot of convenience to a built-in mixer.
  A+ on through hole
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Hmmm  this sounds interesting. Will have to look into flash carts I think
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I think I've seen that also, seems like a good deal if you plan to work with the expo port, its a non-standard connector type. Would be useful if you want to interface other hardware to the port but didn't seem to do anything by itself. Until there are other hardware projects that use it, I con't know what I would do with it.
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OK so I've been hanging back from this discussion for awhile because IMO it doesn't help much. I totally understand the frustration, feel it a bit myself, but again IMO I trust Seb to fulfill our orders.
   We are not dealing with Fry's or RadioShack, just a guy that leads a busy life with a day job and lots of other activities. That said, Yes it would be nice to have the GenMDM in my hot hands but I can wait for it because in the end I would rather have the interface then a refund.
  I have no idea what the holdup is and knowing the reasons doesn't make that big of a difference to me in the long run. Just recently Seb posted new firmware on his blog, so perhaps he was delaying for that, IDK. To tell the truth I'm fine with a bag of parts and doing my own assembly if Seb wants to kit it out.
gopal_metro has expressed interest in buying out another's place in line and I'm sure there are other parties out there that would like to get in line also. So that may be an out if you have lost interest or patience.
  Anyway, my only point is I know it's a bummer waiting and even worse not hearing anything but again IMO it will be worth it.
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Switches are noisy by default, if you want a clean switch over you have to debounce some how. For clocks, you could use a 2 to 1 mux, controlled with a switch  and a RC debounce circuit. Of course, this doesn't help at all if the CPU can't handle the phase errors between the clocks.
  Also with overclocking, it's not just the CPU but the whole system that is running faster, so if rom and ram chips can't respond fast enough, there will be glitches and crashing.
Another idea, if you used the LTC, you could have a fixed R for the normal NES clock f, and a pot for variable f; and then switch between the two.This might avoid phase error.
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