Son of Ben Power issue?

[Ericmc]

I recently made the son of ben, plugged it in and it worked for about 10 seconds, then wouldn’t do anything. Bypass worked, but no sound when engaged. I messed with it a bit, re-flowed a few of the joints and plugged it back in. LED came on, worked for about 3 seconds this time, and went off again. Again, no sound or led but have signal when bypassed. Any ideas as to where I should start looking? In troubleshooting, it got to be a fairly messy looking build but will try to post pictures when I can!

 

[BuddytheReow]

Sounds like your main power supply is shorting out somewhere. Pics will definitely help us help you!

 

[Ericmc]

I was able to quickly grab some pics. Excuse the mess, like I said troubleshooting got it pretty messy.

 

[Robert]

It wouldn't cause the issue you're having, but is there a reason you have C10 jumpered?

 

[Ericmc]

The only reason I jumped it was I thought when I started it up and it worked for a few seconds, maybe I was supposed to jumper it instead of leaving it open. Originally it was open and I just did that to troubleshoot to make sure that wasn’t the issue. Part of it getting messy haha

 

[jimilee]

It looks like you’ve got the power on the battery terminal of your DC switching jack.

 

[Ericmc]

It looks like you’ve got the power on the battery terminal of your DC switching jack.

That was it, you guys are awesome! Still having some weird signal drop outs and stuff but working 90% of the time and I think I just need to fine tune the biasing. Thanks!!

 

[Erik S]

That was it, you guys are awesome! Still having some weird signal drop outs and stuff but working 90% of the time and I think I just need to fine tune the biasing. Thanks!!