Any way to wire this up to a PedalPCB Breakout Board?

[mkstewartesq]

Hello all. Am working with this more “hands-on” board than I am used to and wondering if there is any way to wire this up to a PedalPCB break out board? I’ve wired 3PDTs manually before and still can do that – but it would make things easier and quicker if I could just use one of the breakout boards that I have lying around. This is going to be the first pedal in line in a 2 in 1 enclosure so obviously I know all of the wiring coming out of the top of the board, to the jacks, going from the out of one pedal to the end of the other etc. is also going to need to be changed – but I’m really more concerned just about the breakout board possibility For connecting the 3PDT of the first pedal to its own circuit board.

(Once I get a handle on whether a breakout board can even be used, then I’ll figure out how to extrapolate that to using the breakout board with the illuminated foot switch, since that’s my ultimate goal.)

Thank you,
Mike

 

[giovanni]

You should be able to do that. I don’t have pen and paper to figure out the pins but it looks pretty straightforward to me.

 

[mdc]

I think everything should go where you'd expect aside from the LED, which isn't on the PCB. LED+ from the board would go to the LED anode, and the LED cathode would go to SW on the breakout board (I think that's what that pin is for but someone please correct me if I'm wrong).

Otherwise, ins to ins and outs to outs, and you might need to steal a ground from somewhere or whatever but just check continuity when yr done and hopefully it's all good.

 

[mkstewartesq]

Actually, if anyone has any thoughts on this, I had one additional question.

My ultimate plan is to make this part of a two in one pedal. However, I went ahead and built it complete as per the diagram above just to test it and make sure it worked. When I’m ready to make it a two in one pedal I understand that one ground will run to the input jack from the first board and one ground will run to the output jack from the second board. Looking at the diagram above – which is the pedal I will put at the input jack – can I simply do away with the ground that is running from the board to the output jack and instead just run a single ground from that position on the board down to the point on the 3PDT where the ground terminates in the diagram (in essence, omit the output jack from the diagram above and just run a single ground wire from the board down to the 3PDT, and then run the out from the 3PDT over to the input of the second pedal. The ground fpr the output jack would go to the board for the second pedal).

Thank you. Luckily the other pedal in the enclosure will be a pedal PCB pedal, which frankly is a lot easier to work with because it makes more sense to me.

 

[giovanni]

If I understand correctly you would need to route the output of one board, via 3PDT, to the input of the next, also via 3PDT (assuming you want to bypass the two effects independently). Usually there is a shared ground plane on PCBs, so as long as those are connected to at least the power ground you should be ok. You will also make sure the global input and output are ground which sounds like you have thought about it already. There is a section in the wiki with some relevant pages.

 

[mkstewartesq]

If I understand correctly you would need to route the output of one board, via 3PDT, to the input of the next, also via 3PDT (assuming you want to bypass the two effects independently). Usually there is a shared ground plane on PCBs, so as long as those are connected to at least the power ground you should be ok. You will also make sure the global input and output are ground which sounds like you have thought about it already. There is a section in the wiki with some relevant pages.

Thank you for the help. And those wiki pages have been my bible as far as planning this out.