Ca-ca-ca-catch the wave! Max Headroom Meridian (Aion FX)

[peccary]

[sarcastically] How the insides look is even more important than how the outside looks!

Right? Luckily I had some larger shrinkwrap so I could cover my shame

Looks like there are a couple of ground points on the footswitch board that I could have used. Might think about that for next time. I have a couple more Aion boards I'm looking forward to building up.

 

[Feral Feline]

As mentioned on TB, great build!

I wouldn't have noticed the problem with the graphics if you hadn't made your "decalaration".

I'm becoming a fan of the idea of using molex connectors on the power if nothing else. I need to be able to pull my builds back out and debug... too often.

I also hated the wiring on my first aion project I finished recently. That being said, his build docs are hands down the best I've ever read. I read his build docs for projects I don't even plan on doing

I reference the Aion Docs for a lot of other builds. For instance, I don't have an Aion Muff (actually I probably do somewhere), I really like his on-on-on switch for the tone circuit — it gets you an intuitive toggle up is a mids boost, middle position is flat and toggle down is scooped. IIRC, that's not the case with on-off-on.

Like music6000, I tend to prefer the older legacy boards, but still go with 1590N1 and top-jacks.

 

[wintercept]

Very nice build! I’ve had a Meridian PCB among several others for a while now (since Black Friday lol) and plan on making the guitar version.

One thing I already can’t stand is how it needs smaller than usual 220nF and 1uF caps. Where did you get that thinner 2.5mm 220nF box cap?

 

[peccary]

Very nice build! I’ve had a Meridian PCB among several others for a while now (since Black Friday lol) and plan on making the guitar version.

One thing I already can’t stand is how it needs smaller than usual 220nF and 1uF caps. Where did you get that thinner 2.5mm 220nF box cap?

I got the 220nF's from Tayda, I'd already had them in my stock. I had a hard time finding the 1uF film caps that were small enough. I ended up finding them at Mouser.

I believe that these are the 220's I bought: https://www.taydaelectronics.com/0-22uf-100v-5-polyester-film-box-type-capacitor.html

 

[wintercept]

I got the 220nF's from Tayda, I'd already had them in my stock. I had a hard time finding the 1uF film caps that were small enough. I ended up finding them at Mouser.

I believe that these are the 220's I bought: https://www.taydaelectronics.com/0-22uf-100v-5-polyester-film-box-type-capacitor.html

Right in front of me this whole time! Thank you very much. I didn’t want to put together a Mouser order for this one.

I will try using Tayda 1uF film caps that are 3.5mm thick: 1uF 50V 10% Polyester Film Box Type Capacitor WIMA MKS2

I took the part number and compared them to the ones on Aion’s Mouser parts list (MF00) and they are identical, except the Tayda (KSSD) ones have a better tolerance and are more expensive at lower quantities on Mouser

 

[peccary]

Right in front of me this whole time! Thank you very much. I didn’t want to put together a Mouser order for this one.

I will try using Tayda 1uF film caps that are 3.5mm thick: 1uF 50V 10% Polyester Film Box Type Capacitor WIMA MKS2

I took the part number and compared them to the ones on Aion’s Mouser parts list (MF00) and they are identical, except the Tayda (KSSD) ones have a better tolerance and are more expensive at lower quantities on Mouser

These are the ones I got from Mouser: https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/505-MKS2B041001C00MF

Looks like the ones from Tayda are pretty darn similar in size. Nice.

Those weren't available when I did my order, but I'm glad that I was pushed to check out Mouser. It forced me to learn to use their search, which is really helpful once I figured it out. They also ship a lot faster than Tayda does (here in the US, at least).

 

[wintercept]

someone bought all 70 of those 1uFs that were there this morning.

fml

 

[peccary]

someone bought all 70 of those 1uFs that were there this morning.

fml

Oh, man. That's rough!

 

[Feral Feline]

Local Shop here has 2u2 FILM caps not much bigger than 1u; the 2u2 are pretty tough to find online, I've found, or rather didn't find.

Need to restock my own 2u2 supply.