My White Whale

[Diynot]

Regarding that 5150:
I've been asking questions on this forum for so long now that I go to make sure no one has asked the same question first only to find out that I already asked the question and then forgot about it. I'm like the squirrel that forgets where he buried his nuts.

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That PCB has so many components on it that I actually start to get a little nauseous looking at it. @Robert 's children will probably have to continue doing the traces after he dies, regardless of his having lived well past the ripe age of 1,000 years old.

Damn. Even more reason to NOT trust pcbmania, he can hardly get simple shit right

 

[coltonius]

Damn. Even more reason to NOT trust pcbmania, he can hardly get simple shit right

Which begs the question, "Do you even test your products before selling them, bro?"

I would be so embarassed if I were selling something I couldn't stand behind.

 

[HamishR]

For me it was the ROG Thor. The only board I never got working. This was done on vero, following the tagboardeffects layout. It always had a high pitched squeal. It prompted me to make an audio probe, which told me where the squeal came from, but I still didn't know how to fix it. I trashed the board but used the jfets for other stuff.

Now PedalPCB offers the Thor, but I kind of lost interest in it. Anyone build it yet? I don't recall seeing any build reports.

While Tagboardeffects were a reasonable way for me to get into building on Vero I often find their layouts a bit crazy. Usually with a bit of rearranging you can come up with something far better laid out and easier to build. My personal pet peeve is how often they stretch out caps over huge distances. I try to make box caps only span over 3 rows - their natural span - or at a pinch two rows. And I like electrolytics to only span two rows as they should. I like all of the gain wires to come off the same side of the board!

These days I do all my own layouts. Once you do a few it becomes relatively easy and very satisfying.