Recent content by vigilante398

I wasn't critiquing your english, I was just saying you'll be doing a lot more SMD soldering in the future ;)

The most SMD you're ever soldered so far ;)

6.3V rail is good for 3A and 345V rail is good for like 30mA, this one is intended just for preamps. I have a supply that can do 5A of 6.3V and 140mA of 350V, but the components are physically bigger than I would want to fit in a pedal. They are still smaller than a comparable power transformer...

The implication was that the 6.3V and 345V combination makes a pretty good setup for a tube power supply, but if you really want to overclock your personal massager, there's no law against that either.

Ah I read that bit but for some reason my brain didn't register it, I guess maybe because "five dollar" was written out. Or because I'm running on 3 hours of sleep. Either way, I retract my complaint. Carry on.

I'm immensely disappointed that this thread has been up this long without mentioning the clipping characteristics of $5 diodes.

That board is literally a 6.3V power supply and a 345V power supply. Guess what the 16 pin connector on the bottom plugs into ;)

This is far from important at this point, but in the bottom left corner there it looks like a DTF transfer of the artwork. Did Martin the master screen printer even exist?

I've never understood people that talk about their products like that. Maybe I'm just not business-minded enough. Sushi Box pedals are made by some dude and his wife in a messy basement while eating snacks and watching serial killer documentaries. The pedals are pretty good. Whatever.

I don't really know what my headache is. I have a handful of "commercial" pedals that I sell and I decided I hate all of them and just want to throw them all away and start completely over so I can do a better job.

I had been putting off setting this thing up because I was intimidated, but I finally sat down and got the pick-and-place machine running. I'm running it nice and slow for testing, but it still just placed 90x 0603 components in 4 minutes. Little bit faster than I can do by hand.

No, the burst box is supposed to have a copper coil, not just a copper ground bus wire.

Klaus does seem to get overloaded and can be slow to answer emails, but I promise he is around and will always take care of you eventually. Also Klaus has an open order for more Nobelium PCBs which I will be shipping out this week.

Probably the most complex pcb design I've done on the pcb mill at home, I/O setup with power supplies for prototyping. UV printed solder mask and silkscreen, though the silkscreen didn't come out great. The board works though, so I'm happy.

Yeah Musikding uses hand-drilled enclosures, they don't have a CNC machine to do the milled slots like Tayda.