arc shipping begins today.
we don’t have our full batch of PCBs yet (more show up this afternoon and Monday) so only a couple dozen are shipping today. big batch of Monday, then later orders will be shipped by next Friday at the latest.
thank you for your continued support!
two happy announcements about the new arcs:
- total current draw with all LEDs on is 150ma. this is achieved by using a brighter LED (same as grid) with a lower refresh rate. these two factors mean we are unlikely to see any power-noise problems with eurorack/etc.
- hot swapping while powered on (ie, SWITCH, 2->1) now works.
i’ll need some time to figure out if i can get decent brightness out of old arcs with a minimal hardware mod (swap some resistors) with the new firmware. once i work this out we can talk about reconditioning/updating old arcs.