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I've got the same de-soldering iron. My take? Its fine. It's best for when you have, like, *a bunch* of de-soldering to do. Like if you're scavenging components. But it's bulky, and imprecise. And I don't trust the solenoid in it to like...not burst into flames in my hand. But it's...

Yessir! Shoot, at this scale a peltier cooling system would do the trick. It'll suck down current like a teenager at a disreputable open bar, all right, but it'd work. Lets make the most power hungry fuzz face ever. The kind of thing that makes the lights dim when you plug it in. Hell yeah.

Thats because typically the input jack is shorting the "ground" (typically, but not always negative). That one's like a normally open set of contacts: inserting a mono plug into a stereo jack that has the load (circuit) tied to the ring and the "ground" tied to the barrel shorts the ring and...

Aion's version of the Hudson broadcast lists it as either a 2N404a or a MP20. They specify a gain range of 60-80hfe and leakage under 100uA. Not a difficult target to hit with A 1T308V/GT308V will fit that bill nicely. Russian transistors, their V looks like a capital B. I've got a bunch of...

Check R4. Should be 10K, looks like you might have a 1K in there. Edit: nah, they're 5 band. Nvm. Double edit: R12: you've got a 12K in there, looks like. Needs to be 22k.

You've got a Stalo on the way. Like. Soonish. I keep on getting distracted. My bad. Its already made, just gotta like...find time to actually do the work of putting together doomy's package with yours and figuring out how to do international mail. As if it was hard. I procrastinate. I...

Nah dude. No dice. This was the component earlier: This thing would make a fantastic Q1 in a fuzz face if I could keep it below 50 degrees 100% of the time. At that point it's like, HFE 75, leakage 100uA. But the temperature coefficient on this thing is super touchy. Like, huge swings...

Whelp, I've been having fun. Had a couple of sparks, just started grabbing at random values from the datasheet in terms of max Vce, max Ic, yada blah... Figures that my first real attempt to sit down with a breadboard and do some work would be torture testing transistors that were likely to be...

A'ite folks: I've added a few more recently Of particular note are two additional fasels from two JEN mister crybaby supers that I was able to snag on the cheap recently. One red, one white. I've seen a bunch of colors online...green fasels exist somewhere. Orange fasels were available...

A'ite, did a little more testing. Keep in mind I'm working with potentially deadly voltages here kiddos. Do not try this at home!! Anywho: let's melt some whiskers!!! Upshot? I melted the whiskers. But our leakage values are still crazy high. I'm curious if, perhaps, maybe I build a...

Save a low E string. Ride a stickman.

Components. I'm a big fan of spending too much on components. Getting the super special deluxe audio-rated high quality bullshit. Paradoxically...I'm also a huge fan of spending too much on old, considerably less good, considerably more inconsistently constructed vintage components. For lots...

Actually, they're the stickman's natural predator.

Absolutely. But only up to like, 100uA. Its remarkably close to measured values using the RG keen method below 100uA. Anything more and it all goes out the window. These have a min hfe of 60, and they all measure under 20 or over 250, depending when I measure them. Its not reliable if you're...

Similar thought. Discharge a cap between the case & EBC bundled together. right now I'm maxed out at like 36 volts unless I do some shady bullshit with a bridge rectifier I have laying around and mains. Nah. Don't have the work holding setup for that. No thank you. Not gonna die today...

Stick man. Bang rocks. Ahem... So, I've spent a good amount of time dehydrating these things. Like, 12 hours. I'm not noticing any improvement in leakage...not even incrementally speaking. BUT!! That got me thinking. Tin whiskers. Fuckin...high humidity is going to affect that. I...

Mmmm. Delicious.

God DAMMIT darwin. With your "theory" of evolution. Tell me: it you're so smart, how come it isn't a law? Everybody knows that life is actually made of sticks. WHAT? PROVE ME WRONG! *Ahem*. Uh...where was I? Ah. Yeah. So, I appreciate the input. I'm not fully studied on the actual...

Probably could, though then you've got the opposite problem should water make its way back inside. Whatever makes it harder for water to infiltrate will also make it more difficult to remove. So: first shot? Maybe 4 hours on the pump, no real drop in leakage current. As far as I can tell...

Silica beads work too...but *much* more slowly. Vacuum dehydration has a very specific advantage: boiling points are directly affected by pressure. Silica can only absorb water vapor that makes its way into the air at atmospheric pressure. I've probably got my chamber down around 1000 microns...