Phantastron

Today I was found huddled over her table-top twiddling with wires, smelling of solder with a contorted face working through the Phantastron kit (by Electric Western), a noise box based on a pentode circuit developed for radar. This is what it looked like this morning...


After many lovely mugs of tea made by Leigh and his love and support, things started coming together as contacts were made whilst carefully following the schematics. The kit uses a turret board for attaching components including two amazing tube valves which stick out the top. There are five switches on the front for control and pitch variation. Plugs are in the rear of the unit for in/output and inside the box is the additional power supply to run the circuit and tubes.

As the sky turned a darker shade of grey and the house lights started coming on all parts were in place. Leigh had a test run as I beamingly looked on. It works, just some tweeking needed to stop the hummm! This is the final, beautiful, result...