FM02 Gallery

Pictures of Various FM02 and other VAST product Installations

• FM02 (& others) Installations. -------- Click on the pictures to enlarge them ! ----------- Be sure to scroll down the page.............. If you have pictures of your VAST installation you'd like to share, just PM ukewarrior for inclusion in the gallery.
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  By OregonLights.

  FM02
  Case: Mouser P/N 563-NBF-32006. The plastic is very easy to drill and work with. Wall wart power, entrance via a strain relief to the toggle switch & power indicating LED. The power then goes into a LM317 regulator I bought in the DIYC group buy. For additional power filtering I added two 2200 uF capacitors to the output of the LM317 and routed it into the transmitter. The audio input is provided off a headphone jack from the computer line out. A stereo jack is mounted in the case and routed into the transmitter so a standard stereo cable can be used off the computer. I put a snap on ferrite bead (mouser P/N 810-ZCAT1730-0730A $1.20) onto the audio cable .The transmitter board in the cover is attached using screws through the case lid and nylon spacers I got from Ace Hardware. The case is thick enough I had to put a relief in for some components to make the frequency display sit flush with the outside of the case. The boards on the inside of the case are mounted to a thin plexiglass panel I made from a larger piece I got from Lowes. I just scored it and snapped to fit. It mounts with two screws into the case body. The boards are attached to the plexiglass plate using screws and nylon spacers and some larger nuts.

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  By OregonLights.

  FM02
  Mounted view of the FM02 to the left.

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  By Underdog.

  FM02
  I've taken an old CD player & gutted it, desoldered the main connection bar and then pulled out all but 2 pins, the ground and the +12V. That makes it easier to not have to cut into the PSU harness and maintain the stock plug! I added a switch and a line input. I also added a 24V 2200uf cap to the input of computer power supply. The last real mod was I had the front panel on risers off the front, but after clicking around on the front buttons some I felt like it was bending the board, so the "KISS" method best solution was to remove the risers, take an old mouse pad, cut out a piece of the neoprene-like rubber and the place it behind the board to give more support. All the case modifications were done with a Dremel tool with a Roto-Zip cutting tool, easy, and fairly safe. The next step will be routing the RG58 antenna to the back of the box.

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  By Underdog.

  FM02
  Additional image to the left.

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  By CaptKirk.

  FM02
  Mounted in an Aluminum case

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  By chelmuth.

  FM02
  I took an old Cable Modem I had laying around gutted it and put my FM-02 in it.. Just widened a few LED holes for the buttons and cut a rectangle for the display.. On the back I just had to square off a round hole and make a new little round hole for the Antenna jack.. The 3.5mm jack fit nice and tight in one of the original holes. I made mounting stand-off's by cutting the heads off of zipties and glueing them to the case. For the front display I used some extra pieces of plastic and wedged the front in there then glued the pieces of plastic.

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  By chelmuth.

  FM02
  Additional image to the left.

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  By smartalec.

  FM02
  i found a old non working wireless hub in the shed so i ripped out it's guts to make a fancy Transmitter Case.

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  By RobDude30.

  FM02
  I used a small 120VAC to 12VDC medical grade power supply from TRC Electronics that seems to be well regulated and very quiet. Everything was a very tight fit in the enclosure I chose, but it worked.

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  By RobDude30.

  FM02
  Additional image to the left.

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  By rkhanso.

  FM02
  I have one of the Vastelec FM-02 transmitters and wanted to permanently mount it in a metal electrical box for shielding. It's not so easy to mount the transmitter board flush with the box and have the holes line up for the power, antenna and audio and make it still look OK.
  Editorial note: There is a cutout template located on the FM02 wiki page.

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  By rkhanso.

  FM02
  Additional image to the left.

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  By klanger.

  FM-02 with pira micro RDS unit I used this enclosure from Jaycar here in Aus if I remember correctly. I also fitted the RDS board in there as well.

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  By AURBO99.

  My FM02 was installed in an old CD-ROM case. It includes the miniRDS unit.

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  By AURBO99.

  My FM01 installation in a Hammond project box. It includes the miniRDS unit.

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  By imbluenote.

  FM02 with micro RDS unit Enclosure is an old telephone demarc that was going to be trashed. I was going to use a orbit box but was able to get the other. There are two perf boards in the enclosure. One is a power conditioner (lower left). The second is a board to hold the few components needed to interface with the RDS unit (upper right)

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  By kingofkya.

  FM02 with micro RDS unit This is a picture of the integration of my FM02 and the micro RDS unit. The ferrite beads are a requirement.

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  By dmcole.

  1 Watt VAST unit
  When I received the boards, I found the whole thing to be much smaller than I had anticipated and realized that I could fit it into an old SCSI enclosure, which had the added benefit of a good power supply. I had pulled the hard drive out of the enclosure years ago and hung onto it because I have trouble throwing anything away.

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  By rogelio.

  FM02 with MicroRDS unit
  I still need to set the RDS level. I thought my transmitter wasn't working at first. Pure static. Till I turned down the RDS trim pot. It completely overpowered the music. The box was kinda small so I soldered the antenna wire to bottom of board and brought it out to a bulkhead fitting.

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  By rfallatt

  FM02
  This old external floppy drive case was the starting point. (keep scrolling to see finished unit)

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  By rfallatt

  FM02
  Here is the front view of the finished unit. The floppy components were gutted and the FM02 was installed inside. A new front bezel was constructed. The 'display' PCB was mounted to this new front bezel.(keep scrolling to see finished unit)

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  By rfallatt

  FM02
  Here is the rear view of the finished unit. The 'processing' PCB was mounted to the rear. The interconnect cable that is supplied with the FM02 connects the front PCB to the rear PCB.

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  By SamJ435.

  FM02 with MicroRDS unit
  This setup used a simple and inexpensive plastic project box. Note the integration of a pira MicroRDS unit. The interface components for the MicroRDS unit were located on a piece of perf board which also served as a base to mount everything.

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  By SamJ435.

  FM02 with MicroRDS unit
  Here is a detailed image showing the interconnections of the finished product to the left.

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  By pcoshatt

  FM02
  I wanted to find an encloser for my FM-02. While at home depot I found this outdoor 4 square deep box and cover. I mounted the ant unit with plastic standoffs and plastic glue (kinda the same as pvc glue). I needed to make it weatherproof to use for a campout that I go to every year for the past 20 years. I normally setup a sound system and having it loud at one end of the barn and no one can stand by that half of the barn because it is to loud. Now I can not only setup speakers and cut the sound down to normal but also transmit all around the campsites to radios. Plus setup 6 boom boxes around the area and have music everywhere!!

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  By pcoshatt

  FM02
  Continuation of the image to the left. This shows the mounting of the main FM02 board with the display board removed.

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  By hasoon

  FM02 with Wall Wart Tamer
  Here is my FM02 build using a gutted Sony A/V switch I picked up at a Boy Scout rummage sale. The other stuff you see in the case is my own home grown Wall Wart Tamer, 3.5 to 3.5 panel mount jack and a 6" 3.5 to 3.5 jumper all from MCM Electronics. Then I have a SMA-BNC panel mount from Ebay.

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  By hasoon

  FM02 with Wall Wart Tamer
  Continuation of the image to the left. This shows the completed unit in the enclosure.