Ok, This makes me feel like the biggest noooob around. I finally got around to building the Sunking V3 that I had purchased. I included the clipping diode mod that gives you a tone of options. With all of the pots, mods and what not & anything else that I thought I could do to to thoroughly confuse myself, I pit it on my testing rig and viola! I had given birth to one of the mythical beasts here! ;D
Feeling proud of myself, I designed the box, drilled it , painted it and installed my new Sunking. As I always do before I close up a box, I took it to the music room for a thorough break in. I plugged it in and ........ no sound. >:(
So, I took it all out of the box and went back to the stage I knew it was working. After unsoldering the input and output jacks and DC to put it back on the test rig, I didn't have high hopes that it was going to work but ....... there was my awesome Sunking! So I thought I must have made a noob mistake wiring the jacks and DC. To defeat this I installed the Input and output jacks back on the pcb.
OMG GROUND HUMMMMMMMMMMM. All I have effectively done by doing this is remove the Input and Output jacks and 3PDt bypass switch of my testing rig. While testing in this format I made sure to try one or the other and both Sleeve connections tied to ground to see if I was just missing a ground point. Neither had any help. ???
Does anyone have any Ideas? Thanks again for all of the wonderful searchable advice here.
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Were you getting signal in bypass? I boxed a working circuit this weekend, had signal in bypass, but got this loud pop and no signal when I stomped it, and no LED lighting either. Turns out I had the circuit board ground pad connected to the DC jack and nowhere else, and this was the problem. I ran a wire from the DC jack ground lug to a ground pad on the 3PDT wiring board I used, and the problem was solved.
On my testing rig with a True bypass 3pdt in between .... Yes I was. PS I wired it up for the buffered bypass. When I installed the jacks all I have is an ungodly ground buzzzzz.
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I think we need pics in this instance.
I will snap some as soon as I get home!
"B"
The guts of my testing rig. Green is input Yellow is output. Just True Bypass with an led.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/pollen-productions/IMG_20130205_161036_717_zps9088e827.jpg)
My Solder on the board
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Output side of the Switch
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Input Side of the Switch. Blue goes to ground and red is 9v.
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w104/pollen-productions/IMG_20130205_160907_230_zps8860317e.jpg)
The Jacks, Blue and White are over sized ground leads to get back to the breadboard,
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