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Thanks guys, this fixed it. My wah now wahs!

Thanks!!! I'm seriously thinking of grabbing a Halo or maybe Whipple inductor . . . is there only one source for the whipple inductor?

I would think they would work the same. Mammoth does offer a "diffused" LED right alongside a diffused submini incandescent bulb which doesn't require (and probably wouldn't work with) a current-limiting resistor. Are you sure you got an LED and not a bulb?

FWIW, you can make your own diffused led's with a little 1000-grit sandpaper and possibly a little 3-in-1 oil I often diffuse blue LEDs to reduce their retina-piercing intensity.

[the pedal acts like a slightly scratchy volume pedal]

I completed a Weener Wah build and it looks beautiful. Seriously, one of the most attractive-looking PCB's I've ever worked with.

With a little pin-bending I was able to get the inductor out of my Crybaby (crappy I know but I figured just to start) to fit in the innermost pads.

By marking the inductor with a sharpie, I tried to line up the pads using the only reference point that exists on both boards, the "L1" designator. However, they didn't quite line up in a meaningful way. I know that only 2 of the pads are there for electrical contact and the other two are just for mounting, I guess.

So when I plugged everything in, the pedal acts like a slightly scratchy volume pedal. I thought maybe I wired up the sweep pot wrong, but according to the pinout of the Hot Potz here I'm correct.

Does anyone know how to correctly orient the inductor on the board? FYI mine is a stock Crybaby inductor, but you can see a bottom view here: http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/shwanghourt/DSCF1226.jpg

I could have a bad inductor, or I could just have it hooked up wrong. Any ideas? Thanks!

FYI here's a pic of the build just before I put in the transistors (thus the empty sockets)

You can see the red sharpie mark on the top of the inductor, that's pointing directly at "L1" on this pcb

So then the regulated output is being fed by the increased voltage from the doubler circuit - meaning either regulated or doubled voltage will be limited to 20ma?

So I could use a 9-Volt regulator to bring it down to 9V, but then as to question 1, I'd be left with 20ma to split between two pedals. I think that answers my question. Thanks.

Edit: I should probably mention why I'm doing this: I have a RadioShack 1.5A 9V supply that I had been using up until getting my BBE Supa Charger. I love the Supa Charger but I want to try to avoid daisy-chaining, and having more than 8 pedals, I still need to use a couple wall-warts. This particular supply introduces a significant amount of noise into my signal. Since it's worthless to me adding all that noise, I thought I'd crack it open, rehouse it, add filtering, regulation, etc.

I thought, if I could accomplish all that with a single Road Rage that would be great. Seems that I might need to just re-use the transformer from the radioshack and add my own regulated, filtered output stage, and jack that out, but also feed a Road rage off it, in the same box, that way, I can have a ~1a regulated 9v output, and a ~20ma 18v output for my OCD.

I have a couple Road Rage questions and I didn't see any threads that addressed them, neither did the Project Doc.

1 - Can one Road Rage board "multitask?" If I supply it with 9v of power, can a fully populated board output both regulated 12v and doubled 18v? Is there a way to calculate the available current in such a situation?

2 - First of all, nowhere in the PDF did it say how you would achieve 12v vs. 15v regulated power. The main reason for this question is, I'd like to use the Road Rage to filter and regulate an unregulated 9v Power Supply, but have it remain 9v. I don't need an increase to 12v. Is that as simple as adding a resistor or trimpot in series with the regulated output?