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 This is probly directed mostly to Brian.. I forgot my password and haven't been able to login for like 3 months now! Luckily tonight I was able to guess the password, Yay!  Anyway, I entered my email so that I could get my password reset like 18 times and never once received anything? not even in the spam folder.. I was just going to start a new account but couldn't even do that cause my email was already registered! dang it! I'm sure you are busier than heck but maybe you can look into this? I'm just glad to be back! Took the summer off to remodel my kitchen and am gearing up to start building some stuff this fall. Thanks!

 I order a fair amount of boxes from tayda so last order I figured I'd try one of their pcbs. The pcb was great, build document sucked (didn't show which side of the board each pot was supposed to be on) Anyway, This thing is wild! Build is pretty close to stock. I'm using a 3904/3906 combo right now but am going to audition some other transistors this week. Maybe I'll take a gut shot when I go back in there!

 So I built a galacticon phaser tonight. I'm wondering if anyone knows, what is the proper way to set the bias pot? I wouldn't think by ear? It doesn't seem to make any difference where I set it which leads me to question #2..

I built RG Keens jfet matcher last night. Not realizing there is an Updated jfet matcher also (DOH!) Am I just looking at the VGS numbers to match a set? I have to read his article again on matching fets and let it sink in... The set I matched is  obviously not close enough as the phasing is very slight. I ended up writing off a bag of 5457's I bought from tayda because the readings were so much lower than the rest but, after reading keen's article It seems like those should be fine if there are 2 that are close? I might break down and just buy a matched set. I'd rather figure it out myself though. I dunno, any thoughts greatly appreciated!