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Tangent: Anyone interested in a Pork Loin DIY project? I actually have a layout in the Etcher's Paradise folder. Not verified obviously.

Yep.  I already started studying the docs put up in another thread.

I reported it Fulltone via email.  It's up to them to take care of it.  Anyone with half a brain would know it's fake.  I wonder what's really inside.

Was perusing Aliexpress looking for enclosures and this popped up:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-Guitar-Effect-Pedal-Ultimate-Drive-True-Bypass/947755892.html?s=p

It appears to be a new  Fulltone OCD for $38 from China.  Not that I'm buying (I'm building one at the moment) but this has to be a fake.  The real ones are made in California, according to their web site.

I've built them with the 2 dip switches and the on-off-on switch and don't hear a whole lot of difference in the settings.  That's from 2 different PCBs but almost identical parts lists.

and what else may have gotten damaged?  I forgot to reverse it when I did the Si version of the pedal.  I get good sound up to the base of Q3 and then some quiet buzzing on the collector.  I think I have the transistors oriented properly as the pedal seems to work fine up to that point. 

The plan is to do some detailed debugging and then post the details when if I can't get it to work.  But I wanted to see if there was an obvious answer to a fried diode.  Matches my board designation.
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I got them Saturday.  They will do the job but I would not drop one too far.  Cheap, all plastic construction.  They were all sold out the day after I bought mine.  I paid about $22.50 for 5 of them.  They are actually 12 drawer units. In total that's 45 small, 10 medium and 5 large drawers.  Hopefully I won't need any more of these things.

I just noticed my "diode destroyer" designation.  Very appropriate since I just burnt up one when I forgot to reverse the diode on the Pasty Face I'm trying to make work at the moment.

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We'll see what happens.  I ordered 5.  $22 and change.

I looked at all the projects on OSH and never found this one.  I found it after about a month or two of looking.  I completely understand  the controversy making Timmys but not necessaruly agree with it.  I tend to think a few people protest too much.  The boards can be found on the sly and for sale several places and several people have sold them here assuming the search function is accurate.  I would think anyone that goes to the trouble of building one will probably want to buy one just to compare the real thing.  I know I will eventually. 

By the way, the svsystems is just a mnemonic I use.  I write spacecraft software for a living. 

Anyway, I don't want to stir up an argument but just posted some observations on what I observed after getting back into this hobby after a long time off. 

I was asked to post some build info based on my post over on the Buy/Sell/Trade forum.  So I'll gladly show what I've done for the Timmys.  I've been building effects off and on since the 1970's after I got a copy of Criag Anderton's "Electronic Projects for Musicians".


This was version used the pcbs I had made.  This one was to verify the board.   As you can see it's wired pots.  I usually hate wired pots but braiding the wires helped tame the mess.

I used a DPDT switch because I had no DIP switches at the time.   The footswitch is on a GuitarPCB board.  Used 24 gauge wire throughout and I buy parts mainly from Tayda.  It's in an unpainted 125B enclosure which I use exclusively since it's pretty cheap from Tayda and a bit larger than 1590B. 

I used a 1458 IC after testing 4558 and 072.  It seemed to have the most gain and least noise.  Since I'm not an expert on the details of these 3 chips and assumed there would be little difference, I was surprised that the 4558 had the least gain of the 3. I tried the 1458 after seeing several recommendations on other boards.

Overall it was a pretty simple build which, overall, took about an hour to put together and test and put into the box. 
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The version below was made from a PCB I received on the down-low from another online PCB seller.  It has board-mounted pots which I prefer.  I didn't post the insides as it's pretty messy compared to the above, even with the wired pots.  As you can see I painted this one and added decals.



The 2 versions do not sound identical but close enough even though, I think, they are part for part the same.  I'd have to go back and check.  There are not too many variations on this circuit from what I've seen on various forums.