SOLVED I knew I was getting too cocky... Need a little help with my Obsidius build

peccary

peccary

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I have a pretty busy week coming up and was pumped with the possibility of finishing this tonight, so I skipped testing and just boxed it up. I'd had such good luck with my previous builds that I was feeling a bit more confident than I ought to have.

Anyways, I am hoping that this something dumb and obvious. I likely won't have the chance to dig in to this thing til the end of this week or maybe next weekend, but I thought I'd ask now to see anyone could see something obvious before I tear it all apart.

Bypass works, but the LED foot switch does not light up and there is no sound whatsoever when engaged. I'm assuming (hoping?) it's a dumb mistake that I can fix quickly after feeling a bit stupid.

Here's some photos:

Full monte:



Jacks:



As close of a zoom as I could get on the board with my phone:
 
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Dudes... I think I put my protection diode in backwards...... :ROFLMAO:. Funny I find that like 5 minutes after posting. Being able to zoom on the photos is really helpful.

Can anyone confirm that would cause the issues I'm experiencing?

I was so convinced it was in my wiring I didn't double check my diodes. If that's it I can get that fixed up pretty easily.
 
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Barry said:
Did you jumper the boards LED? Won't help with no signal but may be why Footswitch isn't lighting
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I was wondering whether or not I needed to do that while I was building - I wasn't sure since there were no notes mentioning it on the illuminated foot switch breakout board page. I figured that if the pedal worked and there was no LED that I'd go back and put a jumper in.

I think the diode issue is what is preventing it from working and I should be able to fix that in a little bit once we put the kiddo to sleep.
 
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peccary said:
Dudes... I think I put my protection diode in backwards...... :ROFLMAO:. Funny I find that like 5 minutes after posting. Being able to zoom on the photos is really helpful.

Can anyone confirm that would cause the issues I'm experiencing?

I was so convinced it was in my wiring I didn't double check my diodes. If that's it I can get that fixed up pretty easily.
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That definitely needs to be fixed
 
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Flipped the diode and the pedal is working great now. Can't wait to open this thing up on my nice rig - sounds great on my practice amp!

The illuminated foot switch is not working, still, though. Can anyone confirm that I need a jumper there?
 
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