AionFX Monolith - Is my 3P4T daughterboard upside down?

fydo

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Hello!

Recently put together this Big Cheese and noticed that the Mode switch was acting odd, until I realized that the order of the modes were reversed to what I was expecting! The original Big Cheese has the cheese mode on the far left and the tone bypass on the far right so I figured it would be the same here. Unfortunately, AionFX doesn't provide switch position labels in their documentation so I don't know if that is intended. It seems more likely that I buggered up something to cause the order of the 3P4T selection to be reversed. So, my questions:

- Has anyone built this before and can confirm the order of the modes?
- Would desoldering and flipping over the daughterboard PCB fix this issue?
- Perhaps something else that I missed?

Thanks in advance! Appreciate any help

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Edit: Here's a stock photo of the original Big Cheese, showing the Cheese Mode on the far left:

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Looking at the build doc, I think you’ve got the orientation for the daughter board correct. Also, the build doc does describe the sequence of modes for the rotary switch, and it lists tone bypass first and ’cheese mode’ last, which seems consistent with your description. So my guess is the order is different in the Aion project.
 
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