Powder Blue Overdrive

[rbottoms]

Measure your 100uf's with a DMM, you have to wait a bit for it to read full charge & see if you can get the highest.
I use Nichicon & Rubycon & they get as High as 110uF which is in spec for a 120!
Put the highest in C102!

Great. Thanks!

 

[jimilee]

Can I use 100uF instead 120uF? I keep forgetting to order them and my patience has now come to an end.

You should be fine, they’re just powering filter caps. You shouldn’t hear any difference. I usually stick with 100uf or sometimes as low as 47uf, depending on the circuit.

 

[PedalPCB]

I've used 100uF for all of these prototypes, and like jimilee said, I wouldn't be afraid to go down to 47uF if it's all I had.

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Nice build, looks great.

Chopsticks can be whittled down for poking those dip switches. The circuit is like a Timmy and a half. Another one for the breadboard.

 

[Dalongcorleone]

@PedalPCB on the actual blues power PCB there is a transistor listed as Q1, wondering why it's not showing on the powder blue?

 

[PedalPCB]

@PedalPCB on the actual blues power PCB there is a transistor listed as Q1, wondering why it's not showing on the powder blue?

See this post.

This is why I don't trace circuits from photos

Where does the trace coming from the left end of R21 go?

forum.pedalpcb.com

 

[manfesto]

@PedalPCB holy crap thanks for moving those caps! Soooo much easier to flip those DIPs now

 

[Grubb]

That is a clean build and a cool layout. And yet another drive pedal I will have to think about