Bigwan Posted November 4 Posted November 4 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 November 4 Posted November 4 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 November 4 Posted November 4 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 November 4 Posted November 4 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 November 4 Posted November 4 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 November 5 Posted November 5 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
paul_5 Posted December 18 Posted December 18 Just finished a Big Muff 2 using the veroboard layout on dirtboxlayouts and it's GREAT!! 1 Quote
Homatron Posted December 19 Posted December 19 Ooh, thanks for the heads up @paul_5! I can't believe this already has a veroboard layout. Good to hear it turned out well, and it's now on my build list for the new year! Quote
LukeFRC Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago I got a big cheese Musikding kit for Christmas - which is exciting. ive got a few other things that I would like to try, but kinda want to do another pcb design and assembly again next year - any ideas what it would be good to do? Last year was the mini prunes and custards - and I ended up selling 9 of them … kinda want to avoid that again, but equally pcb A is expensive if you end up with 9 unused and populated boards! not sure what to make, my guidelines would be interesting on bass not in current production prob not something that I can easily get from Musikding as a kit. I don’t mind developing have mods or tunings for something. one suggestion was a mk2 octabvre which someone has and said I could trace in a non destructive way - would have to work out cap values on breadboard though! Quote
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