Best DC jack for Tayda PedalPCB predrilled enclosures?

ElGuapo said:
Indeed thank you. Even though Lumberg is great you don’t see brands in the store with protruding jacks like this
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JHS still does I think, most brands are using board mounted stuff for fastest assembly, but it's a little more difficult for DIY stuff because there are so many variables when you send out a DIY project as far as what people will have access to in their area and such.
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I've been meaning to ask @PedalPCB, is the LED hole for the pre-drilled enclosures supposed to match any specific bezel? I have to widen it for every bezel I've tried.
 
ElGuapo said:
Indeed thank you. Even though Lumberg is great you don’t see brands in the store with protruding jacks like this
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Actually they're quite common.

I probably have three or four commercial pedals on my bench right this minute with the exact same type of jack.

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With that said, the pedals in the store you speak of have been professionally milled. Tayda can do that if that's what you want.

The pre-drilled enclosures are geared towards folks who don't want to drill the enclosure themselves, not particularly mass-produced runs of retail products.
 
HamishR said:
FWIW make sure you get Lumberg DC jacks. The cheaper versions of that jack are terrible!
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Every question here has been answered, but I want to chime in and agree with this. The cheaper knockoffs of the Lumberg are terrible. I understand trying to save a buck here and there when building, but the Lumberg DC jack is 100% worth the extra money.

Disclaimer: not affiliated with Lumberg, despite my best efforts
 
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Maybe I have just been especially lucky, but I've put together probably a dozen pedals with what I assume is Tayda's Lumberg-knockoff and never had any issues, except maybe that one or two have wiggled loose if I didn't tighten them down enough...

I've really had it on my list to put together some high-end builds of my favorite "keeper" pedals but I tend to flip through them quickly enough and haven't had any issues with the generic parts that I've just not got around to it yet...
 
I feel like the ones they have at tayda now are better than before, or the ones I got more recently are just lucky to be decent ones. The ones I got in 2018 were almost unusable due to the nuts not being able to be sufficiently tightened. I got some more recently for pedalpcb predrilled ones and I bought some of the small ones and the larger ones thinking I'd just drill it out if it wasn't good and to my surprise I was very happy with the ones I got.
 
I have some non-lumbergs that I sourced from either Tayda or LMS--they work fine but some of them are super tight--you need some force to get the jack in.
 
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