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Howdy!  I haven't been lurking around the forum much lately.  PM me through the forum and I'll definitely respond.

Regards,
Tim aka piemanelec

Never mind!  I see that smallbearelec has two of these.  Does anyone have any experience with either of these?  Is one more durable / reliable than the other?

4PDT would be great.  But I don't know of a source for one that I can use in place of the normal footswitch.  Can you point me to one?

Howdy All,

I built a Pork Barrel a few weeks back and it worked fine so I went ahead and boxed it up in a pretty green enclosure from PedalPartsPlus.  Then I decided to build a little perfboard to add a stereo output.  After a debugging a couple silly errors in my perfboard, I've got the second output working fine.  Then, while smiling at my accomplishment, I realize that I don't have any more switches on the 3PDT bypass footswitch to switch the second output.  As currently wired, only the original output is switched.  No worries, just disconnect the LED from the footswitch and switch both outputs with footswitch.  Except, now I've got a useless LED in the enclosure.  Not such a biggy.  I can wire the LED to be driven by the oscillator and just let it sit there and pulse.  Except, I'd really like to be able to switch the LED and the two outputs.

Any simple ideas? 

My PCB pants are doing the happy dance!

There are some that call me ...                      Tim.

This is worse than Christmas!  With Christmas, you at least know that it's coming on Dec. 25. 

Thanks for the advice, everyone.

I made some time to debug it tonight and found that I had two problems.  One was a tiny short of solder  between traces.  The other was a dead transistor.  After I fixed the short, I checked the voltages on the transistor and it was definitely dead.  I had it oriented correctly too.  Anyway, I replaced it and she fired right up! 

I like this thing a LOT!

Thanks again for the help.

Cheers!

Howdy all,

I just got done soldering up a LaVache board and have a problem somewheres.  I haven't made time to buzz it out yet, and being bone lazy, would sure appreciate it if anybody that's built one could give me some voltages at various test points so I can check mine out.

One thing that confused me during my build was the orientation of the 2N3565 I'm using.  I got a NOS version from smallbear.  It's a TO-106 package which I'm not familiar with.  Looking at it from the top, the package is circular with a small flattened edge near what I have decided is the emitter.  Can anyone verify that?

Thanks!

I gotta vote for my vintage reproduction Hiwatt DR-504.  Talk about taking pedals nicely.