Bigwan Posted yesterday at 09:30 Posted yesterday at 09:30 On 01/11/2025 at 18:19, bnt said: This morning I thought I ought to make a start on the Parasit Studios Into The Unknown kit I bought a few weeks ago from MusikDing. It might be a bit ambitious for my first electronics job in decades, but I thought I should try and I wanted a 4046 PLL pedal. Six hours later and the board is fully built and fitted to the case.. Which took some doing, what with eight pots, three switches and two LEDs. What's left is to hook up the connectors and footswitch, then hope I don't have a bad solder joint somewhere in there ..! You should NEVER spend time building a board and not check it before you stick it in the enclosure... 1 Quote
bnt Posted yesterday at 09:53 Posted yesterday at 09:53 19 minutes ago, Bigwan said: You should NEVER spend time building a board and not check it before you stick it in the enclosure... I should clarify - I had to mount it in the enclosure to get all the pins lined up before soldering, since the pots are PCB-mounted. If you solder first then try to mount it, you risk stressing the board. So you put the pots and board in place before soldering the pot connections. Quote
Bigwan Posted yesterday at 14:58 Posted yesterday at 14:58 Ah, I've built a few similar projects... Still, there's a huge unknown from mounting the board in the enclosure before testing it.... I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! Quote
LukeFRC Posted yesterday at 15:29 Posted yesterday at 15:29 5 hours ago, Bigwan said: You should NEVER spend time building a board and not check it before you stick it in the enclosure... go on, you never played effect pedal Russian roulette you've never lived - supreme confidence and you just go for it- like skydiving where you jump out the plane before checking your chute... 1 Quote
bobbass4k Posted 23 hours ago Posted 23 hours ago When I built the PLL clone with 25 board mounted knobs and switches I drilled the enclosure so I could solder everything mounted and then just wired it up - worked perfectly first time. The next week I built a simple 4 knob overdrive with maybe 20 components and it took me a 6 hours of troubleshooting to get it to work. The gods work in mysterious ways. Quote
Goliath_FX Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago 22 hours ago, LukeFRC said: go on, you never played effect pedal Russian roulette you've never lived - supreme confidence and you just go for it- like skydiving where you jump out the plane before checking your chute... I love playing this game Quote
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