Harry Klippton
Well-known member
Here's my paragon build. Same story as usual. I populated this months ago and was just waiting to get wired up. This one gave me a royal headache as only channel 2 worked initially. I checked all the socketed bits and certified my status as a socket hater, checked component values and tore my hair out with the multitude of discrepancies between the build doc, schematic and screen print on the board, still wasn't it.
Then I used an audio probe for the first time, and in conjunction with doing continuity tests, I found that there must be a broken trace between C8 and R11, so I added a jumper and sure as shit, it works now. Not sure what's up with the broken trace because I couldn't spot it under magnification, nor did I bugger any of the pads at any point.
That's a gold foil no film decal on a tayda box from my first batch with the gold foil. It's not perfect and goddamn gold is hard to photograph well. Next I'll probably yoink the charge pump just to check it out.
Then I used an audio probe for the first time, and in conjunction with doing continuity tests, I found that there must be a broken trace between C8 and R11, so I added a jumper and sure as shit, it works now. Not sure what's up with the broken trace because I couldn't spot it under magnification, nor did I bugger any of the pads at any point.
That's a gold foil no film decal on a tayda box from my first batch with the gold foil. It's not perfect and goddamn gold is hard to photograph well. Next I'll probably yoink the charge pump just to check it out.