kit build on a cold day

What better thing to do on a cold autumn day than to curl up with a nice warm soldering iron.

Join me as I grab a random kit from my pile and do a nice leisurely kit build.

Today's randomly selected kit is a function generator - basically a test signal generator.

This kit only cost about $2.

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This isn't the only way to do it.
It's probably not the best way to do it.

But it's how I do it.

[PCBoardRepair]

I designed and built one of these 8038 signal generators from scratch back in the 80's and it was the cleanest signal generator i every came across....you did something wrong

[dangoneau]

Keep your dirty snow out of my province! I better not see snow coming eastward!

[tablatronix]

heh nice "baku" soldering iron...

[alanknight]

Hi This is very strange, even though I have used the 8038 before I ordered one of those
kits a few days ago .

The 8038 data sheet says to control purity by using 2 presets, one on pin 1 and the other
on pin 12 . Perhaps you should try that . I have a note on my data sheet that mentions that
I found something on the web about sine wave distortion being partly caused by high current
blips caused by the pull up resistor on the square wave output pin ( pin 9 ).
I dont know when I noted that down --- I guess when I had a problem years ago .

Thanks
Alan