About how LEDs are oriented on the board...

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HamishR

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I've been delighted in quite a few recent builds that not only are the LED connections at the bottom of the board, just above the switch connections, but that the anode is on the left and the cathode on the right. This means that those of us who use the LED ring around the stomp switch can just bend the LED wires on the switch carefully and slot them straight into the board. Of course it also means using a 470ohm resistor on the board where the usual 4K7 goes.

But when I built my Duocast which has two switches yesterday I noticed that while the LED connections on the right were around the "right" way, they were a mirror image on the left. Lovely for the symmetry but a PITA for my otherwise straightforward build! 🤪

And as I look to all the next board I am to make I see all of the LED connections are at the top of the board again. Oh well, nothing a little wiring won't fix... Seriously though, having the LED connections down just above the switch connections has been great! Maybe for the builds where the connections are at the top I'll just go back to being conventional. 😟
 
I never considered the fixed pinout of one of those LED rings... :unsure:

However, I didn't flip the LED around for symmetry, it was more about minimizing traces cutting across each other to prevent noise/oscillations.

For the boards with the LED at the top you could use one of the Illuminated Bypass boards and install a jumper in place of the LED on the effect PCB.
 
Slightly off-topic - I think Sturdag Lagernathy must be the coolest, most Viking screen name ever.
 
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