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Reply to "Design of a $10-20 DCS-TIU Port Tester Tool?"

stan2004 posted:
My guess is most guys would prefer a built-and-tested version...rather than firing-up the soldering iron, ordering DigiKey components, ordering bare circuit board(s) from OSH Park / SEEED, etc..   I might have missed it in the conversation but has anyone stepped up to providing completed units...or if not then at least a kit of parts? 

You're right, most of the folks probably do want a completed unit.  That was my experience with several other projects, I started them out to be kits, and almost everyone wanted assembled and tested.  I may consider doing a kit of parts, but I'm not willing this time to have to put it together.  Perhaps we can recruit someone else to build them.   They're fairly easy as they're all thru-hole.

I'll probably buy ten sets of parts for the ten boards I'm getting.  Actually, I really only need the HCT123's, and the 2K pot, I think I have all the resistors, caps, and diodes in quantity anyway.  I know I have a ton of 22uh chokes left over from a quantity buy for another project.  LED's?  Tons of them.

FWIW, I agree with the dual banana plug, or at least individual banana plugs.  No sense in using alligator clips, they're not nearly as easy to use.  Now that it's just one connection to the TIU channel, it'll be a quick PnP test setup. 

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