SOLVED No power after enclosure

[KdubATX]

Build powered on when wired to the Auditorium but I’m getting no power after I’ve wired up in the enclosure. Thought I was being pretty careful too :/. Pics attached and I tried to get decent shots of the different spots of interest. Hopefully I just did something absentminded at the end of the build that will be easily fixed tomorrow.
Welcome any thoughts and feedback.

 

[drgonzo1969]

try putting electrical tape around the legs of the LED. I bet they are touching something when you put it in the enclosure.

 

[KdubATX]

try putting electrical tape around the legs of the LED. I bet they are touching something when you put it in the enclosure.

That seems totally plausible will try that in the morning cheers

 

[ReinoutVrijhoef]

Not only there, also on the screws of the terminals. You can never be too safe.

 

[jimilee]

Are you getting no power or just no LED? That bezel is all metal, that will short the LED if you don’t have the small plastic part the legs go in.

 

[Erik S]

Looks like you've got a different board version than image in the current listing, so maybe yours is different, but should the two germanium diodes be facing alternate directions like this one?

EDIT: Nevermind. I can see the square pads on the same side on your board. You're good.

 

[KdubATX]

Are you getting no power or just no LED? That bezel is all metal, that will short the LED if you don’t have the small plastic part the legs go in.

No power at all. I’ll try adding some electric tape to the led wire and Jack screws later when I get home to see if it does anything for me.

 

[G.G.]

Is your 9v jack the switched kind? I can never remember which of the 2 hot lugs is switched and which is not so I bridge them with a little piece of cutoff resistor lead.

 

[KdubATX]

Well stripped the hardware and plugged back in the Auditorium and now have no power there either. Yanked all my connecting wires and replaced with new single strand pieces and after hooking up to Auditorium I got the same result. Signal passes through the bypass channel but the led and effect are not working.
So I did something wrong after starting on the enclosure stage. And whatever it was I have not fixed. New pics attached. May let this one sit awhile then try again later and move into the next one for a bit baring any ideas.

 

[fig]

Check the voltage on both sides of the protection diode 1N5817.

 

[KdubATX]

Going to relax reflow then try again

 

[KdubATX]

Check the voltage on both sides of the protection diode 1N5817.

Drops from 9.46 volts at the dc wire hookups down to 0.18 at the first diode.

 

[fig]

If you have power on one side of that diode but not the other then the diode needs reflow or is faulty.

 

[KdubATX]

well I did a reflow on the diode but still getting same value. Think I’ll qtip the area with flux removal then assuming that doesn’t work I’ll replace it.

 

[fig]

Have you had any success?

 

[KdubATX]

Have you had any success?

Thanks sick kids and rehearsals have cut into my extra time this week. Hopefully I’ll flip in a new diode and be in business but not opening up the can of worms until I have a little time to drop in the rabbit hole if it does not.

 

[fig]

Yikes, understood. I hope they recover quickly.

 

[KdubATX]

Ok I’ve binned this project. Too much overworking it probably. Changed the diode but then had no power reading at all and realized I’d managed to snap the negative power wire from all the fiddling with it and things kind of spiraled from there. Pulled the ic and tossed the rest out. Board was starting to look fried and I was getting fried with it. I’ll start fresh with something else and just move on.

 

[Erik S]

RIP PCB

 

[KdubATX]

Starting over on this one and I see the board is oriented a little differently than the build guide. Looking at D1 and D2 (1n270) the positive/negative orientation is reversed on D1.

Would you advise following the orientation as on the board or as on the guide? Pics attached.