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Just followed the diagram I found here: https://guitarpedalparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/3PDT-LED-Wiring.pdf

Of course, after seeing the diagram everything seemed obvious




It certainly looks great, although it's a little bit of a hassle to fit.
Don't know if I would use it again for a baby build, but at least got me thinking about the 3PDT wiring

Found a wiring diagram

Post it when everything works ok

Hi,

   I recently found a couple of 3PDT with a dual color wiring ring led. I bought them to use them in my next two projects in case they would fit a baby board.
When I bought them I thought: "How hard can it be to wire a led?" but the truth is that I have never wired a dual led that is not on-board.

Have followed the standard 3PDT wiring and boxed everything to see if it would fit:



Everything fits great but I'm having a bit of trouble wiring the led ring. The 3PDT has three terminals to solder it but I'm a little bit lost about how to do it.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Cheers

I believe I'm done (for now) with my pedalboard (and I write these with a half built Flintlock Flanger and Celeste Chorus over the table).
But I refuse to make the pedalboard bigger, it's huge as it is for playing in a band and recording so rule is if a new pedal gets in another pedal needs to get out, and to be honest I can't think of a pedal I would like to get rid off.

This last ten months I've been very active building pedals, trying to find a set of effects I would love. Phasers and delays have been the most complicated ones. Whenever I found one that loved how it sounds I wasn't so convinced when combining it with the rest of the pedalboard. So here is my current set:

Input: Tuner, Volume Pedal, Madbean's Weener Wah, Pedalparts Super Skwisher, EHX Silencer, Madbean's Stage Fright (EHX loop), Modded LPB-1 (EHX Loop, first thing I modded in my life), Pedalparts Stoned Cleric (EHX Loop), Rullywow King Tut (EHX Loop), Pedalparts  Disorder Drive (EHX Loop), Pedalparts Mad Modulation (EHX Output), Madbean's Harbinger One (EHX Output)

Loop: Guitar PCB's Mini-ME, Madbean's Current Lover (this one I bought it from a builder), Madbean's Deathklaw, Musikding's Tremolo, Madbean's Moodring



The little black box with a foot on it is a simple channel selector for the amp and under the board there are a couple of klone buffers to keep everything as it should.

I have enjoyed every project much more than I would think I would and learned a little bit of this and that along the way (very basic electronics concepts). I still cannot understand every part of the projects I've built, but as a result of my new DIY activity I have a couple of books about electronics on my library that I'm reading 

What's more important, even if effects don't make me a better player (I wish), I believe building and debugging them has made me more conscious about some aspects of the tonality of guitar sound that I'm using every now and again. As a quick example, this has been the push I needed to finally start using volume and tone controls on my guitar (and then thinking I should have started doing this a loooooong time ago).

Thanks to everyone that writes and shares their knowledge in this forum and on the internet.
Although I haven't written anything (not much to share, really) I have learned a lot and enjoyed reading you 

After testing and a close look to the PCB it seems that I have ruined the central pad of the switch PCB... so, behold the most unelegant solution I could come up with:

Not proud of it, but the Harbinger One is finally alive.

There's an annoying noise in the background at the rate of the LFO, so I guess that I need to recheck the transistors, but I love the sound of the pedal.

It fired up and have spent almost and hour playing, wonderful addictive sound.

Hello to everyone, first post for me

    I've been trying to get my head around this issue but as I don't find any logic I have decided to share my problem hoping someone can help me.
I'm building a Harbinger One for the second time. The first I was clumsy and ended up melting the pads of IC2. I was decided to leave the project for some time, but the demos of the pedal hunted me and ended up trying to build the pedal again.

After finishing the build, the thing was acting weird, I only had sound on tremolo mode but without any kind of tremolo. Checked voltages, audio probed the circuit and after a couple of transistor changes, I thought I was finished.

I have sound that I can audio probe on every pad of the C/V switch when set in Chorus mode, ever transistor seems to be working at the correct voltage, leds are working as they should and so does the lamp, but I cannot get any sound of it. If I audio probe any point in the circuit, it works just fine but when I probe the pins of the volume pot, they're dead.

Have unsoldered the volume pot and tested two other 100KB pots always with the same result, no sound.

I'm no expert in electronics but taking a look at the schematic, I would guess that if have signal on the C/V switch I should be getting something when probing pad 3 of the pot, right?

Any ideas, suggestions, directions, crazy brainstorming would be much appreciated. After two days debugging the whole thing I feel that I'm just a step away of finishing the build.

Thanks