Magnetron periodic overload?

Dan0h

Well-known member
So this is a strange one that I’m guessing one of the pedal gurus here will know.

Randomly my magnetron will go from the epic delay it is to not producing a delay at all at any setting more like stuck in a dirty slap back mode no matter what or stuck in a very low oscillation loop. The only thing that fixes it is unplugging it from the power source and then back in. Is this just the chip having an error or am I getting some sort of power build up that is throwing things out of wack. Again it’s very random like once every 20 jams or so. Should I ignore this or is their a cap I can add somewhere that will smooth out whatever may be happening? This is also the only pedal on my board that frequently POPs when hitting the foot switch. Which I thought had something to do with power building up.
 
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