Posted By
Bionic
on 2003-11-11
|  Re: Producers wanted
Well, it seems you stumpled upon the main reason why there is no SIDcard. The electrical design of the card is the least part of the problem. Especially given, that all information about Solder's (Christian Schaeffners) SID-Card is available on the web for free, including circuit diagrams.
Unfortunately it takes a lot more to produce actual hardware that can be sold, especially given the low volumes. Probably the only way to do this economically is to have the PCB manufactured commercially and do the soldering byself.
Besides, I have not seen much of your SID card, but I have doubts about that concept of mounting anything to the TED-Socket. First of all you lose the RF-shield and therefore probably exceed the amount of emitted RF-Radiation to a level that violates the regulations. Ok, this is not relevant to most people, but technically you would not be allowed to install this kind of hardware in many countries.
A bigger problem is that the TED was actually cooled by RF-Shield. Overheating of the TED will not cause instant death, but all mechanisms that lead to an eventual failure will be increased exponentially (take it by the word!) and thus the lifetime is decreased drastically.
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