Crash102
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Seems like I've built a ton of pedals this week, but really I just finally decided to go through my trouble shoot pile. Ive built two of these several months ago. Because the first one wasn't working. Id get a horrible screeching noise.
Then went through the process of doing a whole other one. Same thing. I switched out every transistor, ic, foot switch, and Jacks. To no avail.
However, earlier this week, I saw figs Pharmacist build and noticed his jack orientation. And then a light bulb went off. 4 of 5 of my not working pedals were all pcbs where the in/ground jack were at the top of the pcb as opposed to a standard pcb, where one of the wires goes to the footswitch and the other goes to the pcb.
Which made me realize I should switch the Jack's wiring. Major facepalm moment. So, here I am finally with a functioning Shallow Water. My of board wiring still needs work. Fat fingers lends me to using way more wire than I need. But I'll get there.
My artwork was inspired by the Arrivals movie. And I did a no film waterslide. Kind of wish I had a different color enclosure. But this is what I had on hand.
Then went through the process of doing a whole other one. Same thing. I switched out every transistor, ic, foot switch, and Jacks. To no avail.
However, earlier this week, I saw figs Pharmacist build and noticed his jack orientation. And then a light bulb went off. 4 of 5 of my not working pedals were all pcbs where the in/ground jack were at the top of the pcb as opposed to a standard pcb, where one of the wires goes to the footswitch and the other goes to the pcb.
Which made me realize I should switch the Jack's wiring. Major facepalm moment. So, here I am finally with a functioning Shallow Water. My of board wiring still needs work. Fat fingers lends me to using way more wire than I need. But I'll get there.
My artwork was inspired by the Arrivals movie. And I did a no film waterslide. Kind of wish I had a different color enclosure. But this is what I had on hand.
