Paragon footswitches on wrong side of board

Wizardofwoz66

Wizardofwoz66

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I accidentally soldered the footswitches to the wrong side of the board, does anyone know the connectivity on the board itself? Essentially, can I just leave it, or will the footswitches control the wrong sides of the effect and have channel 2 run into channel 1? It's kind of deceptive, the board says "this side down", which I took to mean towards the bottom of the pedal, but is actually the opposite because it's down when soldering it to the footswitches. Thanks!
 
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While I've not built one, nor possess a Paragon PCB, what I can make of the PCB images in the build document tends to suggest (by appearance) that the footswitch PCB is symmetrical. So you should be good. Hopefully the forum-master will confirm.
 
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It'll work, but it's grounding the outputs (instead of the inputs) in bypass.

Let me check in the morning, I might still have some extra switch boards from before they were panelized.
 
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Robert said:
It'll work, but it's grounding the outputs (instead of the inputs) in bypass.

Let me check in the morning, I might still have some extra switch boards from before they were panelized.
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If not, no worries. It also seems like it switches which effect goes into which (I made the left side high gain and while the left switch turns on the left LED, I think it's actually running audio through the right side because the other switch puts it on the high gain). The pedal sounds great either way and it's just going to be used in my house, likely not on stage any time soon, so if there aren't any more breakout boards, no worries.

Side note, I bought the pin headers for this but ended up just using wire to connect the breakout board to the main board, how would you suggest orienting it if you use the pin headers? I think the breakout has to be lower or else the foot switches will be much higher than the pots to the point where it's probably not usable, just curious about your thoughts. Thanks!
 
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