Tuner arrived on Friday, was away for the weekend but finally managed to spend some time soldering it together last night.

Spent about 3 hours to solder both PCB's and get it all fitted in the box. Just need to solder the external connectors now and try it out in the car which I'll be doing later this evening hopefully...

The kit is a very professional bit of work, but this is the first time I've soldered a double sided PCB. Didn't realise that all of the holes are plated through, so the solder doesn't need to reach the component side too. D'oh! Once that blinding flash of the obvious hit me, the soldering went much more quickly.

I reckon if I'd read through all of the instructions properly and got all the right tools together to start with, the whole thing could be put together in a couple of hours.

It's actually quite good fun putting it all together. All the components are very clearly laid out and labelled on a sheet of A4 so it's pretty straightforward. You do need a very fine tipped soldering iron though - the board is quite compact and would be easy to form solder bridges with a larger bit.

One other thing worth mentioning is that the box is fairly large (roughly 3" x 2.5" x 3") so is unlikely to fit behind the stereo in many cars. I've routed the empeg leads off to the drivers side so I can fit the box under the dash in my S2000. Hopefully I'll be able to get the audio controls working finally too :-)

Thanks to Patrick for putting up with his many supplier woes and making these kits available.

I'll post again once I get it working...

Cheers,

Andrew.