Re: The perils of homebrewing equipment
I always have a few projects on the go at the same time. When something doesn't go right, I tend to get frustrated with it so it goes back in the box for six months while something else takes my interest. By the time I get back to the first project, everything seems clear again and quite often I finish it with out too much further head scratching. RF instability is always the big one to sort out. Often I have ended up with the inevitable rat's nest of 0.01 capacitors tacked onto everything till it calms down. Sometimes I never bother with finding out why, I am just happy that the capacitor soldered between x and y solves the problem.
Alan.
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