FV-1 Stock and Binaura Question

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hdansin

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I'm sorry if this is not in the proper category, but I was wondering if the FV-1 soldering service/stock will be back any time soon. I was thinking about building an arachnid or binaura but am not confident on soldering SMD.

My question about the binaura is whether it can be used as a mono pedal, as I will probably want to use it in both scenarios. It is not clear to me from the documentation whether something would be lost by running it mono or not.

Thank you!

Happy New Year!
 
Fama said:
No diagrams, and I don't know about stereo input, but I've got https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/unison-double-tracker-with-stereo-mod.26542/#post-344309 and https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/stereo-mod-for-unison-double-tracker-pythagoras.4138/ (the link from that previous post) as my notes for stereo output. But the output will be dry/wet, so one side will always be dry - pseudo-stereo, if you will.
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Thank you. This seems like a good trick for making the arachnid stereo with a breakout cable. This might actually work better for me since I already have a breakout cable. Would it act like a normal arachnid with a normal cable?
 
hdansin said:
Thank you. This seems like a good trick for making the arachnid stereo with a breakout cable. This might actually work better for me since I already have a breakout cable. Would it act like a normal arachnid with a normal cable?
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Breakout cable or a stereo cable into something else that is stereo.

As far as I understand, yes, it would act like a normal arachnid - you're sending the wet signal to the tip, as usual, with dry signal going to ring, and ground to sleeve. Mono cable only has tip and sleeve, so the ring signal is also sent to sleeve, in this case ground. So tip is wet signal, sleeve is ground, just like a normal pedal.
 
Right yes, my mistake, the Binaura is stereo input too of course, the Arachnid is mono, but you can do the dry-and-wet pseudo-stereo output there. Still mono input though on the Arachnid. Only the Binaura is stereo.
 
hdansin said:
Thank you all! I have a lot to think about once the FV-1s are back in stock...
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suck it up and solder the FV-1 and thank us later! it's easy...
Clean pcb with 99% iso
You gotta have a decent conical or chisel tip that is not ginormous
I like to hit the pads with a kester solder flux pen..
lightly tin one of the pcb pads.. i usually start with a corner.
place the chip down and just heat that one leg to the pad that was tinned
make sure that one leg has helped you center up the chip on the pads
go to opposite end and solder down another leg on a corner..
Then just go leg by leg carefully letting the solder flow from leg to pad.
I have to mention I do solder with a bench mounted magnifying lamp...
 
swelchy said:
suck it up and solder the FV-1 and thank us later! it's easy...
Clean pcb with 99% iso
You gotta have a decent conical or chisel tip that is not ginormous
I like to hit the pads with a kester solder flux pen..
lightly tin one of the pcb pads.. i usually start with a corner.
place the chip down and just heat that one leg to the pad that was tinned
make sure that one leg has helped you center up the chip on the pads
go to opposite end and solder down another leg on a corner..
Then just go leg by leg carefully letting the solder flow from leg to pad.
I have to mention I do solder with a bench mounted magnifying lamp...
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You're probably right. Tinning one of the pads is a great idea. Might be the push I need.
 
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