Recent content by boji

Thanks! I'm in France and the duty/shipping fees have become nuts. So apart from PCBs, I buy my stuff from Musikding. I don't have any diode in stock – I'm still fairly new to this – and can't find the 1N4678. What diode would you put in its place?

Hi all, What would be an acceptable replacement for the two 1N4678 in the Stockade? Thanks!

Sunset in Corsica

As a fellow noob, I thought I'd chime in to tell you how I put graphics on my first few pedals. I had some cool Japanese wrapping paper laying around. I just stuck some on pedals and covered it with mod podge. Super fast and easy! But you have to be OK with the fact that they'll be random/unique.

That is probably a silly question: but how do you know that they're used for clipping? I've already broken 3. I know they're really fragile, so I was really gentle. And it broke, but gently :-)

I bent the legs of one of the germanium diodes too close to the glass casing and destroyed it. Do the two germanium diodes need to be the exact same model? Or can they be mismatched?

I upgraded from the cheapest soldering iron you could find to a Vellemann Station (VTSSC50N) and couldn't be happier. It's 48 W. It can do 450 C but I set it once at 350 C and never touched the temperature knob again. It cost me around 60€

A big thank you to you all, you made my life – well, my pedal building life – so much easier. - Klein wire strippers: showed me that wire stripping could be easy and hassle free. Real game changers (thanks @peccary) - Chem-Wik desoldering braid and Plato wire cutters: do exactly what they're...

I wholeheartedly agree. LEDs are essential (I recently modded a treble booster to add a LED (and a 9V plug).)

The lighting in my home doesn’t quite cut it for pedal building. Unwanted shadows makes it nearly impossible to solder at night. Any recommendation?

I didn’t even know these existed. A great solution indeed.

Would you mind sharing a picture of what you mean by screw terminals? Thanks ☺️

I always struggle with fitting the LED. Since the LED must be inserted from inside the enclosure, the drilling has to be absolutely spot-on in order for the LED legs to go through the PCB easily. Needless to say, mine is not JoviBenKenobi good yet. In Jovi’s step-by-step guide, the LED fits...

It was indeed a faulty switch. Thanks guys! I swapped it for a new one, rewired it and lo and behold: a working Duocast. Special thanks to @Mcknib for the super detailed explanation!

I think I was editing my message while you were writing yours. I figured I probably would have to start at R12. But I can’t even get audio there