Random diodes in Durham designs?

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manfesto

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Snippet from the Sex Drive schematic. So unless I'm missing something, LED2 is never going to come into play because D3 is gonna conduct first, right?

Apparently there's also an LED with an unconnected leg in the Crazy Horse.

Anyone know what the deal is? Last minute changes before going into production? Leftovers from previous circuit revisions that Durham didn't feel like cleaning up? Additional fuzzing of the radar on top of gooping?

Just like a *whole* bunch of extra green LEDs they had to get rid of?
 
swyse said:
I think it was on here a while ago I saw a pedal with a transistor inside with all pins grounded out. I wonder if some things are just there to mess with would be tracers.
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oh yeah I think that was the King Tone Blues Power?
At least that one wasn't gooped.
 
Just remembered the snake oil marvelous engine, it has a set of LEDs in it that are in parallel with some schottkys. I always wondered if that one was something like they meant to put in a switch when they were being very inspired by the crunch box or jhs @ which it's basically a direct clone of minus the headroom switch.
 
swyse said:
Just remembered the snake oil marvelous engine, it has a set of LEDs in it that are in parallel with some schottkys. I always wondered if that one was something like they meant to put in a switch when they were being very inspired by the crunch box or jhs @ which it's basically a direct clone of minus the headroom switch.
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I can imagine like in a scenario where you're using a single PCB for multiple products and only populate the parts you need for a given circuit (I'm pretty sure I've seen Devi Ever and J Rockett do this) it could make sense, but I'm not sure that's the situation for either Snake Oil or for Durham, right? So they're just straight up wasting redundant parts
 
manfesto said:
I can imagine like in a scenario where you're using a single PCB for multiple products and only populate the parts you need for a given circuit (I'm pretty sure I've seen Devi Ever and J Rockett do this) it could make sense, but I'm not sure that's the situation for either Snake Oil or for Durham, right? So they're just straight up wasting redundant parts
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I'm not familiar with the rockett stuff, but the devi ever board is hilarious, it's actually super impressive how many different circuits they fit on the one board. I can't imagine it being fun at all to build one.
 
Look at what Fortin did with Q1 in the 33 (Triangulum). It's a leftover from copying the TC Electronics Integrated Preamp.

Look at what Jext Telez did with Q3, Q6 & Q7 in the White Box (Conqueror). Those transistors did something in the Vox Conqueror preamp, which JT copied.

I chalk these "male nipples" up to dipshittery. You might think that stuff is there to confuse cloners, but I'm going with the words of Napoleon Bonaparte Robert J. Hanlon: "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
 
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I stand corrected. It's most often referred to as "Hanlon's Razor."

I had a particularly vexing customer back when I was managing programs. I complained to my supervisor that they were evil. He told me "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." My response was to draw a Venn diagram with two overlapping circles. One was labeled Malice and the other labeled Incompetence. In the area where the two circles overlapped, I put their corporate logo.
 
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