Recent content by vigilante398

The ink definitely has a smell, but it's certainly not as strong as lasered paint. The E1 has an air filter to help with the odor, and it's definitely not as bad as my old A4 printer smell.

The only Sushi pedal that does that is Grand Slampegg (unless you're looking at OLD designs), which uses a 6SL7 tube and can't run the heaters in series. You're more than welcome to use a 12VDC supply instead of 9V, which will have the exact same effect, but I find that 9V is good enough to get...

Finally got around to another weird thing I had been wanting to do: UV printed soldermask and silkscreen on a milled PCB. It's not perfect, but it's certainly usable.

Pretty sure it's still on preorder for retail sales, there are still Kickstarter backers that haven't gotten their printer yet. One week isn't really enough to gauge how much goes into cleaning, but so far the prints I've done have been pretty low ink because I haven't been messing with...

Alright, I promised I would give some more info on this when I had more time to play with it, so I guess now is the time to do that. I backed this thing on Kickstarter almost a year ago now, and I've had the printer for a couple weeks, and I guess I've had the ink for one week. One of the main...

Another important sticking point with USB-PD: have you ever soldered a USB-C port onto a board before? That is not a DIY-friendly endeavor. Through-hole versions exist, but they're still not a task for the faint of heart.

Yeah if I were to build a DIY power supply I would probably start with an IEC AC input (most people have USB-PD supplies lying around, but EVERYEONE has IEC cables lying around) and use a small AC-DC converter. No power transformer/rectifier needed, and something like this would spit out a nice...

This is an immediate turn-off for me. USB-C is more reliable than micro-USB, but I've still seen too many broken USB-C connectors, and in something that's going to be plugged and unplugged frequently and attached to something I'm going to be stepping on regularly, I wouldn't trust it for...

Yup, that was also my post lol The chinese manufacturers I've been working with have always provided excellent quality in a shorter amount of time and provided excellent customer service as well.

I mean they could very well just be this incompetent, but I could equally see a case for it being malicious greed to line the pockets of few at the expense of many.

Chinese aluminum has a 100% tariff, but it's still cheaper than getting parts machined in the US.

That's not how it works. You need to add the product @jwin615 linked to your cart at the same time as the enclosures, then after the order has been placed you go into the drill service website and assign the drill file you want to use. You don't order the drill service on the drill service...

Did you order the drilling service in the same order as the enclosures? You can't order drilling separate from coated enclosures, it all has to be part of the same order for it to go into the system.

Exactly. It's one of those "the longer you look, the worse it gets" things.

No, Guitar Center has a very reasonable return policy, especially with used gear. I advised him to return the pedal for a refund, which is what he will be doing.