analog_bham
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So spent today building the P-2 board that arrived yesterday. Have always been curious about the Cornish pedals so I figured it was worth a go.
As you can see, things went sideways in a couple of areas… First, I’ve been using the 3pdt board with LED on it lately and really like it. I don’t like the LED in with the knobs for whatever reason. Anyway, the muscle memory took over and I soldered in my little curved bus wire loop that I use and proceeded to finish out the board. As I was about to box it up I was reminded that it’s buffered bypass and the buffered boards I have don’t have the LED on them. So, I tried (badly) to unsolder/remove my bus wire. I was able to do so at the expense of my poor PPCB board. I soldered in some wires and ran them down to the LED… but the LED wouldn’t work. I checked the LED with the multimeter and it works. I placed the probes at the terminals on the board and the LED illuminates. But nothing when it’s supposed to work. I cut the wires, soldered the ends together as a long jumper, and then wired it directly to the switch and then to ground. Still nothing. So, I have a pedal with no LED and that’s alright.
That being said, the pedal sounds awesome! Definitely a keeper (if I can keep my teenage son from stealing it).
Also, I don’t have 10M resistors, so I soldered two 5Ms in series and tented them up on the board.
All told, not a beauty pageant winner on the inside but it sounds fantastic.
For the enclosure, I layered some vinyl decals on the Cricut to create the graphic.
I have switched to 24g wire and like it a lot better.
As you can see, things went sideways in a couple of areas… First, I’ve been using the 3pdt board with LED on it lately and really like it. I don’t like the LED in with the knobs for whatever reason. Anyway, the muscle memory took over and I soldered in my little curved bus wire loop that I use and proceeded to finish out the board. As I was about to box it up I was reminded that it’s buffered bypass and the buffered boards I have don’t have the LED on them. So, I tried (badly) to unsolder/remove my bus wire. I was able to do so at the expense of my poor PPCB board. I soldered in some wires and ran them down to the LED… but the LED wouldn’t work. I checked the LED with the multimeter and it works. I placed the probes at the terminals on the board and the LED illuminates. But nothing when it’s supposed to work. I cut the wires, soldered the ends together as a long jumper, and then wired it directly to the switch and then to ground. Still nothing. So, I have a pedal with no LED and that’s alright.
That being said, the pedal sounds awesome! Definitely a keeper (if I can keep my teenage son from stealing it).
Also, I don’t have 10M resistors, so I soldered two 5Ms in series and tented them up on the board.
All told, not a beauty pageant winner on the inside but it sounds fantastic.
For the enclosure, I layered some vinyl decals on the Cricut to create the graphic.
I have switched to 24g wire and like it a lot better.
