Lords of the Ring

[mflynn44]

GK, The thing is, with a 2.2uf cap which you reported you used, and 2x 200kohm pots, the pots both need to be set around the 1k level to get the frequencies you talk about, which must mean you have a hell of a time tuning these things in as the range of frequencies you report are all within the first .5%-.1% of the pot range.

So is it possible you caps are a different value? what type are they also.

And one of your caps you mentioned way 4.7uf (or 4 something) which makes it even worse.

EDIT: 2.2 nf would fit rather well.
EDIT2: Oops, no it's minimum freq would be about 1khz, 22nf would be fine though.

I'm using 10nf and 10K pots with my 555 setup. We really need better documentation.

[giantkiller]

GK, The thing is, with a 2.2uf cap which you reported you used, and 2x 200kohm pots, the pots both need to be set around the 1k level to get the frequencies you talk about, which must mean you have a hell of a time tuning these things in as the range of frequencies you report are all within the first .5%-.1% of the pot range.

So is it possible you caps are a different value? what type are they also.

And one of your caps you mentioned way 4.7uf (or 4 something) which makes it even worse.

EDIT: 2.2 nf would fit rather well.
EDIT2: Oops, no it's minimum freq would be about 1khz, 22nf would be fine though.

I'm using 10nf and 10K pots with my 555 setup. We really need better documentation.

There are 2 famous quotes:
'There are many ways to get there' and 'This thing is sloppy'. 
I have posted explicits on the 1st page per the instructions given me to do so.

--giantkiller.

[IronHead]

Well done, keep your lab tighty and organized

[EMdevices]

Congratulations GiantKiller, and also very nice organization suggestion Spherenot.  I like it!

One suggestion if I may,

How about posting the results observed?   Vibrations, heat, etc...

[lancaIV]

Probably a magnet field observation during process could help !

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