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[fendman]

I put off building this great unit as I had so many builds on the go at the time. I was also waiting to see if any more mods were being introduced. Anyway, I started the build which seemed very straightforward, looking at the video of what Brian had done.

OK..I finish to the stage of rocking it, I switch on..slight burning smell!!!!!! Hmmmm, turns out I have D1 reversed. I then try to think back to when I  put that part in, was I distracted.  Replace the diode check continuity, check volts with all semi's out of circuit, Fire up again, I can bring the volts up from zero to nine on my psu, now it seems the PT2399 stages are not functioning..

To cut a long story short..it got to the stage where I ordered another board from Brian, in the off chance that I couldn't fix the problem. Being that the board is double sided and all the pots sitting there. The build is also quite tight.

Well I did fix the problem, which was probably down to distraction, R47 is 630 ohms yep, I had put 630K in there. You can actually see the corrected resistor sticking up in the picture. I always double check every component before I insert  it in circuit... and when its  soldered I tick it on the BOM. So why did I make mistakes??

You really need to concentrate when you are doing bigger builds, maybe take more breaks and above all don't have any distractions. Believe me, I have had enough years soldering components and if you can avoid these little pitfalls which can put you back days/weeks..then just remember these few words.

There are some pics here...still waiting for the knobs to finish it, not one of my best enclosures but I am trying to get better at doing graphics

[bcalla]

Great looking build, inside and out.  I just got the board yesterday, it will be a while before I get to it.  How does it sound?

[Parra]

nice etch! looks really good.

[nzCdog]

Well done, great finishing.  That is such an epic looking pcb

[fendman]

Great looking build, inside and out.  I just got the board yesterday, it will be a while before I get to it.  How does it sound?

Thanks, I  only got it up and running today, but I  have had about half an hour using it and it sounds much like some of the demos I have heard...Its a really nice pedal, glad I managed to get it working .

Thanks to Brian for all the info he gives out in the documentation, it is priceless.

nice etch! looks really good.

Thanks fella

Well done, great finishing.  That is such an epic looking pcb

Thanks Corey