[hpsdr] Hermes J16 right speaker polarity

[Dick Faust]

Correction the 1.8 revision to the Hermes manual not the 1.7 version
Dick

Dick Faust wrote:
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> I should point out that when I did the 1.7 version of the HERMES 
> manual in October of 2012 this was clarified and  has not changed 
> through the latest revisions of the manual.  If anyone cares to look 
> back on the reflector this condition was explained too many times to 
> enumerate in one post !!!
>
> The way the board was designed was the way the board was designed and 
> anyone saying it is wrong is wrong themselves.  Just because the 
> numbering does not conform to your opinion of what is correct does not 
> make the make the pin numbering wrong .
>
> Just flip the cable over and run it out to a breakout board that has 
> the pins numbered as you would like or use a magic marker to renumber 
> the pins.  The connector was not designed to go on the underside of 
> the board - go read the reflector.
>
> Dick K9IVB
>
> George Byrkit wrote:
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>> Thanks to Ken K9VV for pointing out Bill Diaz' work, and the error in 
>> the Hermes manual!
>>
>> It would seem that someone, when laying out the board, may have 
>> thought that J16 would go
>> on the other side of the board?  I think that would have resulted in 
>> the Hermes docs being
>> right.  Instead, the picture on pg 13 of the V 1.17 Hermes manual 
>> from the OpenHPSDR
>> website does indeed misnumber the pins of J16 as far as standard 
>> numbering should go.  The
>> pin seen on the far right as pin 25 should indeed be pin 2.  This 
>> means that the Hermes
>> docs have the pin numbering in the wrong direction, and swapped 
>> between the upper and
>> lower rows.
>>
>> I think that we need another version of the Hermes OpenHPSDR manual 
>> with this correction
>> made.
>>
>> For those interested, incorrectly-numbered pin 15 (really pin 12) is 
>> 'phase +' and pin 14
>> (really pin 13) is 'phase -' for the right channel.  The correct pin 
>> numbers for those
>> used to proper Berg connector (IDC 2x13) numbering, pin 15 is really 
>> pin 12.
>>
>> 73,
>> George K9TRV
>>
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