It requires 12mm hole, I thought you said the hole in your enclosure was 14mm? Or, are you trying to get away from 14mm? It was late when I posted, and I had imbibed a few tasty beverages...
Yea I may do something like that. And I think I made the hole 13mm it might be 12. Uses the 14mm socket for the nut. Whatever the biggest hole on my step bit. I just like the smaller hole better, I guess. Smaller things inside the enclosure are good. I was just thinking there might be what I was after made and I’ve just missed it but it doesn’t look like it.Hey, what about just using quick disconnects? These are used on new Fender tube amps for the high voltage, and I've used them for 120v switches (but prefer soldering the 450v connections)
I just remembered thinking about this just before dozing off last night....
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Those seem like a waste though. They're expensive for what they are and for our needs we need to cut the wires very short.
To be honest don't know that I would buy them again, but I haven't run through the first batch yet to know for sure
Im with ya
Me neither. It helps that I've never had to do it. Easy when you don't build anything
Idk if tedious is the right word, maybe just something id rather not do. If there was a jack that I liked and could remove without having to desolder id prefer. It’s less about the desoldering and more about the rewiring accidentally burning. I ussually cut my wires pretty short and have had to either struggle to get them back in the hole or just rewire it all. Easier is better
GND/+/LED/-/GND) on most pedalpcb boards. I've written about my justifications before, which have more or less all been said in this thread.IN/GND/SW/OUT pads, enclosure room permitting. On some boards the ground pins in the upper row are more like 3.81mm pitch away from the ± pads, but I've never had trouble bending screw terminal pins to fit.
If you make little insulating washers for these, then they don't short out. I used to laser cut them from 1/32 black acrylic, in two outer diameters, with the same inside diameter to fit tight against the threaded stem of the jack, but at this point, I'll probably just filament print more. I'm happy to provide either the diameters or an STL file (for those of you with printers). You can see a close up of one in action also. The enclosure hole matches there outer diameter of the smaller donut (facing to the inside in the close up).
Won’t the threading short against the enclosure anyway?
Switchcraft makes jacks with longer threads and washers that fit into (I think) 1/2" hole, the washers have a inner circle that is thicker and fits into that hole while the outer part is thinner and wider so the threads don't ground out. I've used these in fender builds to isolate the jacks when there was a grounding loop.
