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Just populated a current lover board. No subs, used MN3207. Followed the documentation regarding D4 correction. Got signal when bypassed but not engaged, then it started to smoke from R33 (10R). Never happened to me before so I didn't think much about it, just swapped the resistor and tryed again, same thing happend. All resistors were checked with my DMM before soldered. All diods and caps are the right way around and as far as I can tell the IC's are ok.

Any suggestions here?

Is the BOM for the bumblebee up to date? noticed that Brians build-report had a diffirent layout and I wouldn't wanna order the wrong parts?

/Markus

I will see if I can find some Lamacoid, theres a little firm that does engraving just a mile from my apartment. Maybe I can get hold of some scrap-pieces

Yeah, i've got an old SG-pickguard laying around that i'm gonna try it one. I'll let you know as soon as I get some free time at work to tweak the S and F 

So, I had a little idea. I've build about 10-15 pedals now but i never been able do label them in anyway.. no success when printing inkjet and laserjet so I've just been using a magic marker.. But now I got a little bigger project in mind which is going to cost a little more than usual and I really want to make a nice faceplate to mount on it.

Here my idea!... Buy sheets of pickguard-material 3ply black/white/black and then use a drill to "mill" out letters and lines in CNC-machine (at work). by milling through the first black layer of pickguard It should reveal white letters. What do think? will it work? anybody tried anything like this?

/Markus

+1

Here in sweden we have www.moodysounds.com, they carry some painted enclousures but its mostly 1590B and which i think are to small for most builds. Here is the selection http://moodysounds.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=7_18_25&sort=0

I would sure like to find a good dealer in europe.

Mostly coffee while builing.. but i tend to forget my cup while i'm wire things up, so its actually cold coffee 

If I do have beer, be sure it would be either:

Carlsberg, Tuborg, Hoegaarden or guinness

IMO that decal just made it look awsome!

thank you!

Last week i ordered parts for a coupple of project. Today i got a mail that told my order was shipping. When I checked the part-list i noticed I've ordered wrong parts for my cherrybomb.

this is probably a noob-question, but thats ok, cause i'm a noob 

Is it ok to put 10uf bipolar caps in C5 and C9 of the Cherrybomb?

/Markus

"there, I fixed it"-method...

fasten the diod in a electric Screw gun or drill by one lead. Full throttle and pinch a piece of sanding paper around the orher lead! 

safety googles is recomended!

I've doubble checked it all 3 times and couldn't find anything wrong. the chip and all the caps were in the right direction. Then I swapped the chip and it worked fine. -8.8V out of the roadrage. Is it common that chips are bad?

It seems to give about -3.2V when I'm running it from a battery

I've built a Pastyface and are powering it with a DC-jack and battery through a roadrage-board.
I found a wiring diagram in the Zygote-documentation wich I used to wire the pedal.

The pedal is working fine but when I was about to install a led I noticed that the chip of the roadrage is VERY hot!
This isn't normal right?

I only installed C3, C4, C5, D3 and the chip I used was a MAX1044 (CPA0851)


thank you.

/Markus

Now that Build-report is just as awsome as the actual pedal ypu've built! great job!