Gator Drive

[Chuck D. Bones]

Igor! The Monster Lives!

Box by The Gator.
Board by Szukalski.
Circuit design by The Gator with a little help from yours truly.

I installed a socket so I could try rolling opamps. So far, TL072 is the winner.
I installed quick-disconnects on the LED leads.
I used a dual C50K for the DIRT pot and an A50K for the LEVEL pot.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I always appreciate a good collab.

 

[steviejr92]

Wow! The board layout is fantastic

Awesome collaborative effort @The Gator @szukalski

I did a double take on the gators eyes after realizing they were LEDs!

Looks like I’m going to be breadboarding this one during the hurricane

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

2 color LEDs! Green for NORMAL mode, red for bypassed but queued up for SWAMP mode, red & green (sort of yellowish) for SWAMP mode on.

Are you sure you shouldn't be headed out of town? Milton looks like he means to rape & pillage Florida and you're dead-center in his path.

 

[steviejr92]

We should be good, it’s nothing but rain right now! Luckily we don’t have any trees on our lawn so no risk of anything falling on top of the house which my biggest worry lol

Green and red leds got it! I’ll have to ask to order a board from @szukalski so I can just make one instead!

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Yeah, no reason to breadboard it because Gator & I made it as good as it can possibly be

Those LEDs are chassis-mounted and wired to the board. Gator or I can provide guidance if you decide to do something like that. Those quick-disconnects between the stomp switches are for the LEDs. Or you can build it the way Szukalski intended and board-mount the LEDs.

 

[The Gator]

Oh I see you put in some inline connectors in! Actually the way I've been doing it is I just solder it to the board with those pins and then when I put the board in standing on end at the bottm ofthe enclosure. Then I just snap the LEDs into the sockets. I was trying to set Yours up so you could just solder the pins Inside the Box. But hey I love what you did with the connectors. Yeah I've tried a few modifications since I've been building these boards and nah we got it right the way it is sounds the best. Yesterday I took some to a local guitar store and they love it! Love the sound and love the gator eyes. I've been wanting to talk Szukalski into redoing the layout to make the gator eyes set up part of the board, but I imagine he's pretty busy. I haven't heard from him in a while.
Looks good Chuck!
Steviejr92 hit me up with a pm and I can set you up.

 

[The Gator]

The green and red kinda end up a orange-ish at certain angles. Kinda like a gator in da swamp...

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Hey Steve, ya still there?