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Projects => Build Reports => Topic started by: rps-10 on June 03, 2012, 12:22:06 PM

Title: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: rps-10 on June 03, 2012, 12:22:06 PM
My 2nd pedal build.. well 3rd if you include the feedback/loop pedal I made first.

It's a Musikding.de Tremulus Lune kit and I substituted the stock red LED for a rainbow LED seeing as the LED reacts to the LFO.

(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-iPSvNhbl2hw/T8tU0ETc4dI/AAAAAAAABdw/rASBLW_euFI/w602-h339-n-k/IMAG0260.jpg)
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ZcIjchwenrM/T8tU0PhAQYI/AAAAAAAABdw/gM5Qra2NTTY/s754/IMAG0261.jpg)
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-goEylZfGSzo/T8tU0ODJaZI/AAAAAAAABdw/GrKeLcCB2wM/s754/IMAG0262.jpg)

It worked well for about an hour, now it's gone all intermittent on me. Signal still passes but no effect and no life in the LED when it does this  :'(
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: jimijam on June 03, 2012, 01:56:33 PM
check your solder joints and reflow them. there is a few on the jacks that look dodgey. (espesially the signal wire at the output.) that could definately cause Intermittant problems.
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: rps-10 on June 03, 2012, 02:53:47 PM
Yeah I know, I should have used my own wire in places and not stretched the supplied stuff in the kit. Also about halfway through my roll of solder run out and I ended up using some old stuff I found, too impatient to wait and go to the shops to get some good solder.
Live & learn, it's going to be fun to re-solder this all and get it back out of the casing  ;D
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: rps-10 on June 07, 2012, 02:16:16 PM
Re flowed nearly all the joints, it now works well. It's a really nice versatile tremolo.
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: rps-10 on April 20, 2013, 02:18:11 PM
Except the raainbow LED will go out after X amount of time/use. Is this a heat issue or something or just a flakey LED?
Can be reset by pulling power from pedal and then inserting back - bit like a PC reboot  ;)
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: LaceSensor on April 20, 2013, 10:56:16 PM
just fit a normal LED...  ::)
Title: Re: Tremulus Prime (Non madbean build)
Post by: rps-10 on April 20, 2013, 11:28:33 PM
Yeah that is an option, just not got around to it yet.

The rainbow LED is pretty though   ;D