Recent content by Erik S

Do you have voltage on the rails on the right side of the board? I see them connected on the left, but I think you also need jumpers to get across the center gaps.

1mm thread on the metric gauge, or 26 on the imperial set. Have you tried these? https://www.taydaelectronics.com/hardware-tools/nuts-washers-screws-spacers-and-more/nuts/nut-12mm.html

See if you can bend your LDR away from the LED a little.

Wouldn’t the 1.0 on that data sheet be the thread pitch? I can pull out some thread gauges tomorrow and check some.

Sounds like you’re trying to measure your resistors while they’re soldered to the pcb. That doesn’t work. Like Jwin615 explained above, you want to verify the color codes.

Looks like your FV1 is upside down. 🙃

There’s a nice looking one to go off in case my explanation didn’t make sense. https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/storm-closed-circuit-booster-limiter.26842/

Nope, you got them on the right sides at least! If you look at the holes where the ICs mount, there’s a square pad for pin 1. That’s the pin on the IC where the dot is. Those would need to get desoldered, do a 180 and go back in. The two pots at the edge of the board should be hanging off...

Pretty confusing to look at with everything kinda upside down like that! If I’m looking at it right I think the pots and the ICs are both mounted to the board upside down for starters.

That enclosure is slick AF. Graphic is great, and the font/ text layout is spot on. No bezel is the most sophisticated LED choice, and then the flat-top elevates it another step. Guts look great too!

If you need to order three capacitors you forgot you needed, it might be cheaper at this point to order from a domestic supplier where you'll usually pay more for parts but less in shipping. If you need to order all of the parts for multiple pedal builds at once like I generally try to do with...

Looks awesome. I kinda like how the wrinkle looks like the bent corner of an old record or book jacket.

One downside of using three different kinds of resistors is there's no way I'm checking those values for you if you post a troubleshooting thread. :ROFLMAO: I don't buy that you could tell the difference with carbon resistors, but I do think they look cool, and I'm all for making your gut...

Great video! Thanks for posting it. I've been doing it almost the same way, except I was trying to balance the jfet on top of the first blob, then pushing it down as the solder melted. The way you pushed into the melting solder from the side looks much nicer. I'll try that on the next one I do.

When I'm too lazy to set up something more complicated, I end up with double headphones on. Play-along tune in earbuds, guitar in over-ear headphones over the earbuds. I'm not proud of it, but it works. :ROFLMAO: Mixers are awesome to have around though. These look pretty cool if you're...