I feel very stupid right now posting this, but I think it's time to get an outside perspective. I built the Son of Ben and it sounds spectacular. The problem is, when I boxed it and tightened up the nuts on the pots (not ridiculously tight, just a bit more than hand tightening) the sound and power cut out. I thought it might be the dual gang pot, which does not have a plastic dust cover. I had put tape between it and the PCB, but I went through several iterations or more tape and plastic thinking that something was shorting under the dual gang pot. That didn't work.
Today I went back and tried again and now I've shorted out the LED. The rest of the circuit is ok though--it plays fine when the nuts are loose and reliably shorts when they are all tight. This is really puzzling because the short is happening between DC+ and DC-. I am not seeing the Vcc points shorting to ground, and it looks like D100 is intact. This makes no sense to me because the DC jack looks fine and I don't even see how I could get a short between the + and - ends with the standard pedalpcb wiring setup. I can post a picture, but it will be hard to see much of the back side of the PCB (where the short is most likely taking place) because the pots pretty much cover everything.
Does anyone have any thoughts here? Thank you!
Today I went back and tried again and now I've shorted out the LED. The rest of the circuit is ok though--it plays fine when the nuts are loose and reliably shorts when they are all tight. This is really puzzling because the short is happening between DC+ and DC-. I am not seeing the Vcc points shorting to ground, and it looks like D100 is intact. This makes no sense to me because the DC jack looks fine and I don't even see how I could get a short between the + and - ends with the standard pedalpcb wiring setup. I can post a picture, but it will be hard to see much of the back side of the PCB (where the short is most likely taking place) because the pots pretty much cover everything.
Does anyone have any thoughts here? Thank you!