Yet another Sandspur

[DAJE]

This is the 4th one I've made, the first for me and the rest for friends.

Worked first time, no issues. Biased Q2 and rocked it. Sounds pretty damn similar to my one, unsurprisingly. Much fun.

I found these gloriously purple knobs so I had to buy a bunch of them. Pink LED, too. If Prince had used a Fuzz Face, this is how it'd look.

Gut shots: OK, I can accept that white plastic washers are a bit crap, but you will never convince me that using connectors for the 9V socket is a bad idea. That's future-proofing: maybe you think your pedals will never need to be worked on ever again, I disagree.

 

[djmiyta]

This is the 4th one I've made, the first for me and the rest for friends.

Worked first time, no issues. Biased Q2 and rocked it. Sounds pretty damn similar to my one, unsurprisingly. Much fun.

I found these gloriously purple knobs so I had to buy a bunch of them. Pink LED, too. If Prince had used a Fuzz Face, this is how it'd look.

Gut shots: OK, I can accept that white plastic washers are a bit crap, but you will never convince me that using connectors for the 9V socket is a bad idea. That's future-proofing: maybe you think your pedals will never need to be worked on ever again, I disagree.

I have been looking into those pigtails for the 9v for a while now are you making your own or buy pre made , I’m back in my pedals quite often and thinking of doing this to all of my builds for “ future-proofing” I saw a build a while ago with pigtail and thought it was a great idea. Not looking forward to doing 80 + pedals but all new builds are gonna have this

 

[DAJE]

I have been looking into those pigtails for the 9v for a while now are you making your own or buy pre made , I’m back in my pedals quite often and thinking of doing this to all of my builds for “ future-proofing” I saw a build a while ago with pigtail and thought it was a great idea. Not looking forward to doing 80 + pedals but all new builds are gonna have this

I tried a few designs and the one that I prefer is the JST XH-2 AKA JST PH-2 connector.

The pics are from AliExpress, but you can find them on eBay, Amazon, and from many electronics sellers. Sadly Tayda doesn't stock these exact ones. You need both the male and female sides to be attached to wires. I trim the wires to make them shorter, but you don't want them too short, you need a bit of give to easily attach/detach without putting stress on the solder joints.

There are also 2.54 connectors, similar in size but slightly larger. The number is the distance between the pins, PH-2 = 2mm, PH-2.54 = 2.54mm AKA one tenth of an inch. PH-2 male connectors fit through the hole in the enclosure - if they don't fit, then there's no point. The female connectors might be too big for the 9V socket hole and should instead be attached to the PCB. The hole is the standard (I think 9mm) for small power sockets. Always check to make sure the connector fits through the hole before soldering anything. If a connector is slightly too big, it's possible to file the edges a little to make it fit. Or you could slightly enlarge the hole.

I have needed to disassemble pedals a few times already, and using these connectors makes it much easier.

 

[djmiyta]

I have needed to disassemble pedals a few times already, and using these connectors makes it much easier.

Can't tell you how many times I've been more than irked having to de-solder or snip wires for me it's a no brainer just wish I'd seen/thought/saw/imagined this years ago. And now as I write this I'm wondering just how well an automotive connector would work. Its just getting power to the board. An auto is D.C Are you feeling the excitement as well? Could be a great cheap way for quick disconnect? For me I could see having a shit load fabbed up. They definitely make them small enough to fit thru the jack hole a little heat shrink tape and done. Hey thank you this was a great inspiring chat. Put 10 plumbers in 10 ten identical rooms , know what you get? 10 different ways of plumbing. It's cool cause they're all doing the same thing the same objective but some are superior to others. thanks for sharing your idea.
one last thing is crimp on connectors faster and durable hell they use it in cars or used to cars bounce every where good enough for a car gotta be good enough for a pedal. A little shrink tape blah blah blah

something like this perhaps just kinda thinking out loud

https://www.amazon.com/Onite-Connectors-Disconnect-Electrical-Cold-Pressed/dp/B07F695FT4?ref_=Oct_d_orecs_d_306733011&pd_rd_w=BUF5P&pf_rd_p=a6cf2dcc-c3c0-4973-b266-0e3ad7b6eb58&pf_rd_r=XFDGVDCMPQJVY9TBV2KR&pd_rd_r=79f67217-69a5-4aa7-a713-09ab0e929b09&pd_rd_wg=KoSaX&pd_rd_i=B07F695FT4

 

[DAJE]

Can't tell you how many times I've been more than irked having to de-solder or snip wires for me it's a no brainer just wish I'd seen/thought/saw/imagined this years ago. And now as I write this I'm wondering just how well an automotive connector would work. Its just getting power to the board. An auto is D.C Are you feeling the excitement as well? Could be a great cheap way for quick disconnect? For me I could see having a shit load fabbed up. They definitely make them small enough to fit thru the jack hole a little heat shrink tape and done. Hey thank you this was a great inspiring chat. Put 10 plumbers in 10 ten identical rooms , know what you get? 10 different ways of plumbing. It's cool cause they're all doing the same thing the same objective but some are superior to others. thanks for sharing your idea.
one last thing is crimp on connectors faster and durable hell they use it in cars or used to cars bounce every where good enough for a car gotta be good enough for a pedal. A little shrink tape blah blah blah

something like this perhaps just kinda thinking out loud

https://www.amazon.com/Onite-Connectors-Disconnect-Electrical-Cold-Pressed/dp/B07F695FT4?ref_=Oct_d_orecs_d_306733011&pd_rd_w=BUF5P&pf_rd_p=a6cf2dcc-c3c0-4973-b266-0e3ad7b6eb58&pf_rd_r=XFDGVDCMPQJVY9TBV2KR&pd_rd_r=79f67217-69a5-4aa7-a713-09ab0e929b09&pd_rd_wg=KoSaX&pd_rd_i=B07F695FT4

Those would work, any solid metal-to-metal connection will work. And yes, it is good to see how other people do things, and it can be inspiring. Or embarrassing in a "Why didn't I think of that?" way, but those are valuable lessons too.

 

[Mike52]

I tried a few designs and the one that I prefer is the JST XH-2 AKA JST PH-2 connector.

The pics are from AliExpress, but you can find them on eBay, Amazon, and from many electronics sellers. Sadly Tayda doesn't stock these exact ones. You need both the male and female sides to be attached to wires.

I bought the 2.54 mm male and the housing from Tayda and am confused how they even work. There appears to be nothing to crimp, or solder. Can these not be used as 9v pigtails?

 

[DAJE]

I bought the 2.54 mm male and the housing from Tayda and am confused how they even work. There appears to be nothing to crimp, or solder. Can these not be used as 9v pigtails?

If you mean these things, you can't use them on PPCB boards because they won't fit, you need both a male and female connection, each with wires, and wire one set to the PCB and the other to the 9V, and connect them in the middle.