Feature Requests on Relay Bypass PCB Project(s)

[lloyd17]

let's see I have about 8 builds to retrofit and another 15 or so planned..

looks like I had better find a good volume discount on those relays! I know it isn't at all necessary and comes out to around three times the cost of a blue 3pdt but I absolutely love the luxury of soft switching.

the bax looks awesome as well, perfect to have a few on hand for shiggles. great work!

[juansolo]

If you guys have any other ideas for projects you'd like to see me hash out, please feel free to let me know.

*rubs chin*

If you'd like to have a crack at designing the PCB for the boobtube/charge pump/buffer you'd probably do a far better job than I'm doing of it at the moment! I think my last attempt left me thinking that, you know, wiring it on the back of the socket and using vero for the rest ain't that bad really

[aziltz]

i'll have to take a look at it.  I was previously planning to keep my projects in the utility camp, but if there's enough interest, I can work on a few actual effects.

I had an idea to make a breakout board for this 9mm 1P6T switch, similar to the PNP layout provided, but fabricated.  Thoughts?

http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=581

[sgmezei]

I would DEFINETLY take a couple of those. I bought two and can't seem to wrap my head around them. The other styled bigger ones make sense to me but I had trouble figuring this one out with my multimeter. I have to find them and look at it again. I want to use them for multiple diode selection like I did here:
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=2456.0

[cjkbug]

i'll have to take a look at it.  I was previously planning to keep my projects in the utility camp, but if there's enough interest, I can work on a few actual effects.

I had an idea to make a breakout board for this 9mm 1P6T switch, similar to the PNP layout provided, but fabricated.  Thoughts?

http://www.smallbearelec.com/Detail.bok?no=581

I like that Idea. got a few things that would work on.

[aziltz]

i just put in an order for prototypes of the relay and the EQ.  if they work when I verify them, I will have a few extra, before placing a large quantity order.

[jubal81]

i just put in an order for prototypes of the relay and the EQ.  if they work when I verify them, I will have a few extra, before placing a large quantity order.

Out of curiosity, which fab house do you use?

[aziltz]

I use the dorkbotpdx hobby service for protos and I've used silver circuits for my micro buffer run.

[aziltz]

ok I'm going to be prototyping a couple of things.

Relay Bypass Board
Micro EQ (2 Band Bax, similar to Xotic pedals)
9mm 1P6T Breakout Boards  (1 for Caps, 1 for clipping)

I will have a few extras once I verify these.

The power supply project will have to wait until next month.

[JeffdaMaori]

Sounds really cool, I'm interested! Great ideas!
Would the layouts be single sided and would you share them for those who etch themselves? That would be awesome!
Also having a board for the Boob tube as Juansolo chimed in would be super sweet.
Cheers!

[aziltz]

these will all be double sided, manufactured boards, but I will share single side versions where I can, although I might have to drop some features.  The idea here is to have things be as small and versatile as possible.

[sgmezei]

Where do we sign up? Just let us know how to pre-order with ya 

[jkokura]

Pre-ordering might be a good idea Austin.

Jacob

[aziltz]

I'm going to try to set that up this weekend.  I was trying to get as many projects committed to the prototyper before I started talking about pre-orders, but I have 4 of 5 that I wanted in.

Here's a preview of the 1P6T breakout boards.  I've designed 1 for cap switching and one for diodes.  The cap one is straight forward as you can see.

For the 1P6T Diode selector, I attempted to make it as small as possibly while providing a good spread of configurations.  I stood things on end so it would also be easy to swap between different diode types.  Here's the break down of the layout:

2x Symmetric
2x1 Asymmetric
4x Timmy (pairs joined in middle)
3x2 Asymmetric (with cap to bypass 3rd diode)
2x LED (for same type)
2x LED (for mismatch)

I tried to hit enough bases that things could also be adaptable to your favorites, and I threw in one of my own, 3 diodes to 2 asymmetric with a cap to bypass the third diode.

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[jkokura]

That's Rad dude. Very super cool. I will be taking at least one of those...

Jacob