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Tiki-T-Boo!

Still learning how to trace a pedal.


Had problems with my Ictineo, one of the first pedals I tried to trace, lotsa switchery! When Robert posted his schematic it all made sense finally.

A while back, I posted I was having a boo at the underbelly of the Tiki.

I had to take a break from it from both the perspective of:
- the pots were driving me bonkers and I
- I had other commitments to tend to.

Avoided it for a long while, but after a month I really needed to get going on it again.

Time away helped distance me from some preconceptions of how the pots related to the circuit. Progress is being made again as I go through the circuit with my schematic and try to focus on connections made — which has helped me understand pots much better as avenues in the circuit close or open with a tweak of the pot and components become connected or disconnected... Schematic's pots are still being tweaked.


For another short short short break from the T-T-T-Tiki, I've started a new trace to better help me understand transferring switches from the physical to the schematic — The Lycan has 4x SPDT on-on switches.


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ahhh crapcake. Why did I think you were a Bambu owner? Poop, who was it? well maybe they saw it :P
It was probably me, I'm running an X1c. This hasn't affected me (yet) because I make a point not to update my firmware.

Speaking of which though, this bright yellow thing just came off the printer and got stuffed with the formal guts of my rudimentary tube tester/burn-in station. I've already started planning revisions for v2, but this will certainly do the job for now. My print bed is only big enough to print a chassis to hold 4 PCBs, so I'm printing a handful of these and they all have daisy chainable power jacks. I didn't expect to like the green OLED displays as much as I do, they're way easier to read than the white ones.

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69438b90-af3c-4866-82dc-7bff2d880791-jpeg.87042
Tiki-T-Boo!

Still learning how to trace a pedal.


Had problems with my Ictineo, one of the first pedals I tried to trace, lotsa switchery! When Robert posted his schematic it all made sense finally.

A while back, I posted I was having a boo at the underbelly of the Tiki.

I had to take a break from it from both the perspective of:
- the pots were driving me bonkers and I
- I had other commitments to tend to.

Avoided it for a long while, but after a month I really needed to get going on it again.

Time away helped distance me from some preconceptions of how the pots related to the circuit. Progress is being made again as I go through the circuit with my schematic and try to focus on connections made — which has helped me understand pots much better as avenues in the circuit close or open with a tweak of the pot and components become connected or disconnected... Schematic's pots are still being tweaked.


For another short short short break from the T-T-T-Tiki, I've started a new trace to better help me understand transferring switches from the physical to the schematic — The Lycan has 4x SPDT on-on switches.


herbert-wink.gif
What is the pedal? is it called Tiki-T-boo?
 
I (mostly) finished it and I’m just wondering why this second p2p build worked too without troubleshooting? I’m also amazed how low noisefloor is compared to transistor muffs.

Saddly my sweaty fingers messed up THE artwork… Also build still needs some wood cuts for sealing the enclosure, which is salvaged - twice!

So here’s some couple pics of p2p IC-muff w/ ultra stoner tonestack.

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No pics, but just knocked out a Cobalt Drive yesterday.
First thing I’ve built in almost a year.
Been focusing on my health and a few other things and now have the bandwidth to do some of the builds I have queued.

All went well, except realizing I had an 8-32 tap in the 6-32 slot of my organizer… after chasing the first hole!. Uh oh! JB time!
 
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