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  1. pettert

    Digital Microscopes

    This manufacturer has been sending their microscopes to electronics youtubers for reviews, it's worked on me, I want one. You can find them on Aliexpress too.
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    Desoldering Station that actually works???

    Where? $400 here (Eu). :(
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    What to make with 30-50 hFE Germaniums

    I just think it looks a bit nicer, to be honest. 220kΩ in parallell with 1MΩ is 177kΩ. I think the value you tune in to stop the oscillation is always quite a bit below that though, but with "my" way you don't get that gap between 220kΩ and 177kΩ.
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    What to make with 30-50 hFE Germaniums

    True, I misunderstood and at the same time had been thinking about wanting to change that switch.
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    What to make with 30-50 hFE Germaniums

    Like this perhaps?
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    The Ocelot: Modified Univox Super Fuzz

    I wonder if the smd MMBT5551 are any good? Anyway I ordered some just to check. :) Nice build Pedalbuilder! I have to learn that Tayda layer stuff.
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    Who's down for some SMD layouts?

    Since there's problems for me with through hole components all the time, I might as well take the plunge. Those camera thingies that some electronics channels have reviewed seem okay
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    What to make with 30-50 hFE Germaniums

    Build the Latent Lemon variety of Harmonic Percolator. It's best with transistors that has hfe in the 40-50 range. https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/latent-lemon-hurts-modded-harmonic-percolator-w-octave-down-schematic.26954/ DirtboxLayouts posted a veroboard layout of the schematic above...
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    EL Sunnbeam

    Hahahaha very good, I had never seen it as far as I can recall.
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    Acer (Altero Kaede build)

    Funny thing is that it's stress relief for the builder too. When I'm doing a new vero/stripboard that don't work right away I've never regretted adopting that practice. gradual wear down on the wiring during debugging has caused me so much frustration haha. Just wanted to say thanks for...
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    EL Sunnbeam

    I know he's a comedian, and was an actor in Full House, a corny daytime sitcom, but your comment flies over my head! Anyway, I wanted to show how much "sensible" the larger v1 board was. The thoughtvirus of cramming stuff into smaller enclosures... it creates so much pain. I also fixed the...
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    EL Sunnbeam

    Oh nice, thanks!! My fix for oscillation was to just skip the last step through the cmos, and I was really satisfied with how it sounded but this looks like a nicer solution!
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    Box of 100 1T313V Ge Transistors Tested

    When you get around to it, I'd love to hear back from you about how they perform noise wise. I'm on the lookout for low hFE (40-50) Ge PNP transistors, my GT313A's are a bit too noisy though.
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    EL Sunnbeam

    From the build doc: "Note: C1 is notated backwards on the silk screen. Rotate 180° if using a polarized cap."
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    Very high soldering temperatures and components/boards

    Wonder if that 450 C is actually 450. Yihua can be fine, but I think cheap chinese brands usually are a bit off with what temp they show and actually is. I solder at 400 mostly, sometimes 375. I definitely don't struggle for 8-15 seconds to solder a resistor, something is off here. Never...
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    PPCB Fumble (spite edition)

    Just put together the board (MMBFJ309, and 2MΩ pot). I like it better when I tuned the bias down to 3.5V, you get a wooly fuzz tone of sorts on top of the drive.
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    Power Supply Questions - Reverse Voltage Over Voltage

    I experimented with this yesterday night, and unleashed some magic smoke, but it was due to my breadboarding errors. To me it looks like a 1N5817 schottky diode + 100Ω and a 10V zener diode (i used 1N4740 i think) would do a decent job att protecting the charge pump IC from from 18V input and...
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    Harmonic Percolator (with some mods)

    First of all, @PedalBuilder, many thanks for your inspirating write up of your exploration of this circuit! I have built a handful Harmonic Percolator-alikes with different variations in the past, but never heard anything close to the low octave effect in the Latent Lemon Hurts pedal demo...
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    Hot Tweezers?

    Saw a video of the Pace tweezers, really good. That's a whole different ballpark than some cheap chinese product. Re: 63/37; Some stuff gets pretty easy to remove when you flood them with leaded solder. Anyway, Mr SolderFix's channel on youtube has a lot of desoldering tricks that work, but he...
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    Hot Tweezers?

    I use two soldering irons at once, it's a bit like using hot tweezers This short video shows the benefits of this, linking the video doesn't work, but it can be seen on youtube: This one too, I'm sure there are cases where the tweezers are much better than two individual irons
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