Trouble with Cave Dweller build, VERY long delay

[midwayfair]

Remove the resistor and measure it with a multimeter, not your eyes.

[madbean]

One aside: where did you get that PT2399?

[RobA]

In this case, which isn't typical, you can measure the resistor in place. If you measure the resistance between pin 6 of the PT2399 and lug 2 or 3 of the pot, you'll get the value of the resistor. But, as a 5 band resistor, it should be Green, Brown, Black, Brown, X with the X being brown for a typical 1% tolerance.

[matmosphere]

Replaced R11 and things are working much, much better. Learned the hard way that I should check parts before putting them in. I'm still having a little issue with the Dwell control. If it goes past 2 o'clock I get infinite and swelling repeats. Getting really great distorted sci-fi sounds and if I wasn't building this as a gift I'd be tempted to keep it how it is now and see what I could do with it. Guess I need to go back and check some other parts.

The PT2399 is from Mammoth Electronics.

[Clayford]

Jon and Rob, thank you for pointing out my stupid error.

[RobA]

Jon and Rob, thank you for pointing out my stupid error.

Momentary lapse of color coding . I do it so often with black and brown that I have to check myself every time I think I know what I'm doing.

Replaced R11 and things are working much, much better. Learned the hard way that I should check parts before putting them in. I'm still having a little issue with the Dwell control. If it goes past 2 o'clock I get infinite and swelling repeats. Getting really great distorted sci-fi sounds and if I wasn't building this as a gift I'd be tempted to keep it how it is now and see what I could do with it. Guess I need to go back and check some other parts.

The PT2399 is from Mammoth Electronics.

I'm glad to hear that it's working better. I need to get mine out and play with it a bit to say what mine does with the dwell control, but I do remember it being pretty heavy into the dark delay zone. Cave Dweller is an appropriate name.

[matmosphere]

It's getting a lot better, still one more resistor to switch out (had 75k instead of 750k) then it's on to caps if there is still an issue.

[jimilee]

Replaced R11 and things are working much, much better. Learned the hard way that I should check parts before putting them in. I'm still having a little issue with the Dwell control. If it goes past 2 o'clock I get infinite and swelling repeats. Getting really great distorted sci-fi sounds and if I wasn't building this as a gift I'd be tempted to keep it how it is now and see what I could do with it. Guess I need to go back and check some other parts.

The PT2399 is from Mammoth Electronics.

Sounds about right. I love mine. Just built a second one to go in a multi as a matter if fact.