Recent content by comradehoser

Are you serious?? I LOVE THIS THREAD!!!!!

Well, it ain't called electromagnetism for nothing. I think the only way to be really sure is to do the scientific thing and test a JFET with and without magnet to see if the readings shift in a significant way. Might be an argument for a weaker magnet as well.

I mostly have rare earth magnets and the fields were making the smd stand on end (the two prong side). It could be a case of too much of a good thing or maybe I need to position it better as suggested by MichaelW. Will test again.

Hey folks, It's been a frustrating week with pedal builds and mods. Finally measured all of my SMD J201s so I could implement the optimal OKKO Diablo/Deofol JFET cascade, and the crown jewel, the only 0.93 IDSS I have pinged off my chest and into the wilds of my basement when I was trying to...

Yeah, I tested out the idea. The SMDs are super magnetic and will leap towards the magnet, it's true. Buuut, I tried several different types and orientations of magnets, and in each case, the SMD wanted to stand on end, unfortunately. I don't have the similar style bar magnet as you have (is...

WEll that is a very handy trick! For soldering for sure, and also for sticking on an SMD board with leads to test. I wonder if it would screw with the readings, though. My issue is that the TC1 can apparently read through-hole JFETS but not SMD. I don't know why. I guess I will just gut it...

Came across owlexifry and Chuck's convo https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/jfet-shootout.13363/reply?quote=178707 Made the "little tester" on breadboard with MMBFJ201 and a 1m resistor, 9v power supply. Getting kind of variable readings depending on angle and pressure on the JFET in the jig...

I am trying to follow Chucks wisdom rebuilding the Deofol with properly sequenced J201s. But I've run out of through-hole, so now I have 20 little grains of effing rice to try to measure to find target IDSS and VP. I thought it would be as easy as making a viable test bed and plugging it in to...

Thank you so much!

Pardon the extremely stupid question, but I can't puzzle it out from the breadboard and my mind is a void at the moment when it comes to potentiometers. Regarding the 10K trimpot between R101 and R102, do we lift the facing component leads of R101 and 102 to connect to pins 1 and 3 of the 10K...

For those of you with experience with this unit-- Gearing up to build one--do you feel that a blend would benefit the circuit a la Darkglass, or would it be kind of beside the point? I learned that it originated in my very own backyard--Atomic Music in Beltsville, MD. I've bought two guitars...

Hahaha I'm an ex-editor as well! (freelance)

That would be nice, but maybe you could kick a long bat switch in a pinch?

Look at that movement! It's like poetry on ice. Grammar police moment: Make sure it's Guy LA Fleur, though (translation is Guy The Flower, flower is feminine in French, so it's La Fleur, not Le Fleur)

This was the 9th pedal I ever made, apparently.