Off Board Wiring in Production Pedals??

Bio77

Bio77

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Been doing a lot of pedal repairs, recently. I notice most production pedals have off board wiring for pots. I was wondering if anyone knew what the cost or ease reason likely was ? Since for me PCB pots cost the same as lug and off board wiring is a PITA 🤷‍♂️
 
I'm really curious to hear from people with actual knowledge but my assumption is that the cost decision is more about the division of labor and less about the actual assembly of it. Board mounted or not, pots are where a build starts to get bulky on turnover racks and I would guess are often a separate station / step in the production process as it moves down the line. In more automated assemblies, maybe pots are hard to use with wave soldering?
 
I guess if your pots are wired, they can be wired without the enclosure and leave some slush for the fit whereas board mounted pots would need to be at right angles to the board, unless you're DBA
 
how bad of an idea is it to wire a short pcb leg 16mm pot off-board in order to simplify a bad pot drill-hole coordinate in an otherwise very nice waterslide decal design which puts the hole for the bottom knob of 3 on the Closed Circuit (limiter knob) too far south to fit the board top mounted knob layout?

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I do it all the time. Just chop the legs off a little bit back from where they 90. And use the little holes that are already there.
* some pots the holes are a little tight to easily slide a wire in. In that case I use one ‘leg’ of a set of pointy tweezers to gently widen them.
 
If you are not far off, you can also bend the crap out of the pot legs. I've stretched them pretty far to get things to fit before.
 
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