Green Bean / Afterlife Problem (Perhaps a power issue?)

[mshuptar]

Hey y'all,

I'm building a 2-in-1 and running a Green Bean into an Afterlife compressor. Before boxing, I tested each circuit individually on my testing rig and both properly worked. I did all the off-board wiring and tested again. This time, only the Green Bean side worked. The Afterlife, when bypassed, still allowed a signal to pass through, but when the footswitch for the Afterlife was engaged, there was a small pop, the LED flashed, and no sound passed through.

I've double checked my off-board wiring against the Madbean doc and I'm not sure where I made an error. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

[cajone5]

The LED burnout sounds like you may have forgotten to add a CLR.  I've done this in the past.  Causes overload and burnout of the LED.  Not sure on your signal issue though...

[jimilee]

Without pics of the wiring, we're all pretty much dead in the water.


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[mshuptar]

....and this is where it gets embarrassing.

Here's a pic of the wiring:



No, really. Here's what it looks like:

Yeah, I know it's a mess of spaghetti.

I set the boards & switches etc. into the enclosure and then did the off-board wiring. When it didn't work, I took out of the enclosure. (Really, it did look a little neater when it was all crammed in there  )

If you need closeups, let me know. I'm probably missing something really obvious.

[jimilee]

Close up would be helpful


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[selfdestroyer]

Truth be told, I have never built a 2-in-1 successfully with out 3PDT daughter boards... so more power to you man. I hope you get it situated.

What I would do is follow your input signal logically from the input to your output. If they worked independently then it has to be the daisy chained signal.

Cody

[jimilee]

It looks like you have your DC input jack wired to the ground pad on the board and then you have your LED wired to the board +9v pad. That won't work. Everything should be wired identically on both boards, only difference being lug 8 of the first effect goes to lug 4 and 9 of the second effect.

[mshuptar]

Thanks Cody!

I sat down and carefully inspected the chain and ended up locating three weak connections (1 at a jack, the other two on one of the footswitches). They were the kind of connections where if the wire was positioned in a certain way, everything worked perfectly. But if something was jostled, it wouldn't work. Anyhow, I made the repairs and both circuits work. Much appreciated!

Build report (and more embarrassing pics of my wiring) to come.

[mshuptar]

It looks like you have your DC input jack wired to the ground pad on the board and then you have your LED wired to the board +9v pad. That won't work. Everything should be wired identically on both boards, only difference being lug 8 of the first effect goes to lug 4 and 9 of the second effect.

Hey Jimi, I just followed Madbean's diagram on the last page of this document here: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/tutorials/downloads/MBP_FootswitchWiring.pdf

(Unless I made a critical error in wiring something. If so, please point it out!)

[jimilee]

If it works, don't worry about it, box it and rocks it!


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