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#1
Great suggestions!
I would add that it helps to have a general idea of what the circuit is doing, sometimes this can be obtained from the manufacturer notes. If anything it helps with realizing where things are going. If the description says there is a bridged T filter in there, you should end up tracing one (ahem...)

Maybe I'm hard headed (no.. I know I am :) ) but I usually just start tracing and drawing a "schematic" at the same time using graph paper and my multimeter, usually on different parts of a page so that later on I can look at everything I've traced and see what makes sense, hoping for that Beautiful Mind cinematic realization.

Sometimes its not as easy to see, but most circuits use existing building blocks , so having a resource ready with the building blocks is handy too.

If anything else, designer building blocks are frequently re-used so if you can see a schematic for a previous project it helps with recognizing what an otherwise odd clustering of components and traces are supposed to be.


If anything trace and retrace. Take a break and come back to it.
#2
Open Discussion / Re: The pedal movIe
May 14, 2021, 05:32:45 AM
I've watched it a couple times now, it seemed weird that after buying the Reverb promoted pedals that we weren't given any earlier access than normal, and that there was a time limit to watch it. Nevertheless, i made the time to watch it or have it on in the background while i worked at the bench.

As a general statement, I enjoy learning about the history of pedals and the general 'what goes on' about effects. I suppose if I didn't, I wouldn't be here :)  I do like the stories of how we got to where we are, but admit that after the movie's history lesson, the story was getting hard to follow. It would jump from cool interesting history to something else, then back in for a second. I feel like it wasn't the best decision to throw things in towards the end without giving them more time/details and context.

Its like the comedic presentation with a time limit; the presenter realizes they only have a couple minutes left so they speed through a bunch of slides just for the sake of saying they "completed" the presentation.

In the end, I thought it was something cool to watch. I hope more film makers (hopefully outside the scope of Reverb) produce more content like this.

#3
Just got my first shot of Pfizer yesterday. I have been in and out of it, slight nausea, and light fatigue... so far

#4
Open Discussion / Please remove
April 21, 2021, 09:20:39 PM
Vaccine brain, please delete :)
#5
Requests / Re: Breadbuddy idea(s)
October 26, 2020, 12:09:59 PM
I like it, I could see my life simplified with this!
thanks for sharing,
   Bradford
#6
Quote from: SirEgno on October 13, 2020, 06:20:51 AM
Usually I do this with small fragile glass housing diodes. I use a little screwdriver as guide, and wind the leads on it.

They take more space, but I'm no longer a diode destroyer!

I'll have to give that a try, that does seem like a good option!

For some reason I've always been concerned with having a exposed leads, which is why I've steered clear of vertical resistors (orthogonal to the pcb?). But if a small amount of exposed lead doesn't matter, I may try and vertically/orthogonally orient some diodes, since it might be easy to clamp part of the lead while bending the remainder.

testing testing testing...
:)
#7
Ha! funny you should mention this. I think I broke about 3 Ge diodes in 10 minutes yesterday just trying to put them into PCBS. Never had such bad luck...
#8
This is awesome!!!
  I rarely have to probe my pedals, but when I need to I always struggle and often just abandon the populated PCB.  This would be a great tool to help me resurrect alot of PCBs in my box-of-failures!!!

best regards
#9
Open Discussion / Re: What are you playing? (games)
June 12, 2020, 02:56:36 AM
I just recently started playing Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness.

I needed to find a way to relax in another world.  So far I like the vast amount of crafting possibilities, nice mountains, and the battle system is surprising given that it was a PS3 game...

#10
That!!!!! is just amazing
#12
I love the idea of this!!!
I have a backlog of pcbs to populate...I just hope I have all components :)
#13
Open Discussion / Re: The Box
March 20, 2020, 03:02:21 PM
ahh yes the box... mine is quite full, i have a small bag of pcbs which i designed which is a growing "failed" bag of pcb layout as well...
#14
antiquated huh?
I look forward to everything :)
#15
Ha! I love the look of the dust bunny bean!