[Wendymott]

Hi peeps...., Is it me ?? am I missing something ? I am developing a 2 metre front end...nothing unusual in that..however.. I designed the front end pcb with SMD 0603 devices in mind,...... the circuit is a copy of the Mutek preamp, using original coils from a Mutek module, upgrading the "leaded" caps to SMD. However, I find that the capacitors are very fragile, not liking being recycled, particularly the 10 nF and 100 nF devices. Yesterday .. I was on Ver 14, which looked very promising, as I had found I had missed a 1.8Pf cap from the original "copy"... My "M O" is to test the circuits, one at a time...with a 10nf coupling cap to a SMB socket for convenience...Gain was intermittent.... again it was traced to the 10N that was outputting...unsoldering.. the end came off...
replacing cured that...... Resistors seem to be much more "reworkable"...am I being too "tight" re using caps ??