It's getting to be a problem, so many cool circuits... must... have... at least... one of each. I don't know how much more the bank account can take. I want to buy more even though I have at least a pile of 10 recently purchased pcbs waiting to be populated with more on the way... The kicker is that while I enjoy building on pcbs as much as the next guy, I kind of prefer the process of vero more...
Ugh... its a sickness.
Let me know if you figure it out.
I have the same problem.
The good thing is... in a pinch I know where I can unload some of them ;D
You wiley bastard, this was a set up from the beginning.
So, Luke...
You make it sound like it's a problem of some sort?
;D ;D ;D
wait...this is a problem. Damn! now i have to hide it. well at least i have an "intervention" to look forward to.
Quote from: muddyfox on December 18, 2014, 08:15:16 PM
So, Luke...
You make it sound like it's a problem of some sort?
;D ;D ;D
Only when I don't have the money for the next fix :o
Says my wife "I don't understand why you have to keep ordering all these little metal parts... don't you already have enough to keep you occupied for the rest of forever?"
if my wife were a centipede, she'd still have enough shoes to last her way beyond the lifespan of the human race
You've come to the wrong place for support my friend, if you've only got 10 PCBs partially populated, your problem is you don't have enough.
It's the same reason every time I join a support group for guys who buy too many guitars, it fails. We all get together and it starts with "Hi, I'm Curtis, and I have a guitar buying addiction" and ends 45 minutes later in a group trip to the nearest guitar store where we all run the racks and empty the Used section. Been there, done that, bought the T-Shirt. The T-Shirt reads "Hello, I'm a Guitaraholic on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I'm on the road going to get my next guitar."
Repeat after me - "It's not a problem if I'm OK with it" Your wife will grow numb to it soon enough, provided you don't leave resistor leads in the carpet, in which case, you're a dead man.
Quote from: GermanCdn on December 18, 2014, 09:40:03 PM
You've come to the wrong place for support my friend, if you've only got 10 PCBs partially populated, your problem is you don't have enough.
The 10 are just the ones I've ordered in the last couple weeks. Quite a few more backlogged but you are right, I don't have enough. I keep adding new shared projects on oshpark and opening up the projects window and thinking about which ones to order. I do need at least 3 of everything...
A couple of semi serious pieces of advice:
1) It's actually a good idea to buy two copies of every board, one to build stock (or screw up), and one to toy with/mod/build correct the second time. Taking a stock build that works and then modding it to make it "better" often results in it "not working anymore" like the Blue Warbler I just tried to tweak, and ended up effing up both the board and the Vactrol. And because boards (especially new ones) tend to go really fast.
2) While it's great to build a pile of stuff, pace yourself. You can actually burn out on it. I've just come off a four month hiatus of not building (did my first three new circuits last night) because a) I literally had 40 circuits ready to box that I never got around to and b) Most of the boards I had in stock were of circuits I already had a number of variants thereof. Taking a break helped, and I'm looking forward to building a lot over the holidays.
You think pedals are bad...stay away from amplifiers! Talk about an addiction!
Did a count of our PCB box today... 70... Admittedly there's a bit of duplication, but still it's getting out of control! Especially as that doesn't count the stuff that's populated and in another box... Errp, about 15 counting in my head.
I have a bit of a thing where I buy PCBs when they're available if they look interesting... Or things that I think we might be likely to need at some point. Just in case you understand...
I can stop at any time though, it's not a problem...
Its a natural phenomenon. Don't fight it.
Quote from: chromesphere on December 18, 2014, 10:51:55 PM
Its a natural phenomenon. Don't fight it.
Haha Bean, Josh, Thomas, Rej, and all others with pcbs, take my money and make pcbs appear magically in my mailbox in 3-14 days
OK, I have PCBs that I bought over a year ago that I want to build, so why did 3 more turn up in the post today? The worst of it is that I have a Kingslayer that has already been superseded by the new improved Kingslayer 2. This is a terrible logical conundrum; how can I build it when I know there's something newer out there? I'm just gonna have to buy the new one and keep both in the box while I think about it. Here we go again...
Looking on the bright side, at least I don't have 70. Or 35 if you divide Juan and Cleggy's stash by 2. Not yet, but they're coming in faster than I am building them. ???
Have you seen JMK PCBs yet? If not, you should check it out. ;)
But seriously, I'm in the same boat as you man. Discluding the PCBs of my own projects, I have probably ordered 150+ different PCBs over the years from other guys.
Jacob
If we're counting duplicate boards as well, I think I'm sitting around the 130-140 mark (as my mates keep nicking them within a day or two of boxing). Bloody SMD designs being so damn addictive, I end up ordering too many boards.
Just got a Laserwolf, the new overdrive/distortion, and a Chunk Chunk. I've already been told the Chunk Chunk is going to get pinched by my best friends grubby little mitts, so even when I try and be good and just buy 1 of each board, it's pointless!
Hi, I'm Steve, and I'm addicted to buying too many PCBs for what little time I have for building.
If we include duplicate boards...
I might be approaching 500.
Jacob
Quote from: jkokura on December 19, 2014, 12:27:23 AM
If we include duplicate boards...
I might be approaching 500.
Jacob
Sounds like a good goal! Haha
Someday someone will ask "do you build pedals?" And I'll answer "no I collect pcbs, this 1st edition limited release danger zone is going to be worth something one day"
The problem comes when you start designing the damn things. At least then you have a good excuse for binning the crappy ones (that need wire links, trace cutting, or a lot of anglo-saxon language), but you also get the problem of four damn duplicates for every board, and the problem multiplies if it's boards no one wants to buy off you.
Quote from: stevie1556 on December 19, 2014, 12:17:29 AM
If we're counting duplicate boards as well, I think I'm sitting around the 130-140 mark (as my mates keep nicking them within a day or two of boxing). Bloody SMD designs being so damn addictive, I end up ordering too many boards.
Just got a Laserwolf, the new overdrive/distortion, and a Chunk Chunk. I've already been told the Chunk Chunk is going to get pinched by my best friends grubby little mitts, so even when I try and be good and just buy 1 of each board, it's pointless!
Hi, I'm Steve, and I'm addicted to buying too many PCBs for what little time I have for building.
Chunk Chunk, do the Cleggy mods:
To do a Dr Boogie this way first you'll need to make yourself a Fet matcher and grab a multimeter. It's also worth reading this article on Fet matchery by RGKeen (http://www.geofex.com/article_folders/fetmatch/fetmatch.htm).
Ours run J201s in Q1 and Q2, and 2N5457s in the other positions. The J201s had the cutoff voltages measured at about -0.3v, and 2n5457s about -1v.
Using the fetzer valve formula for biasing, (0.6 x supply voltage) + (0.7 x positive cutoff voltage), everything has sounded great straight away. As an example a 2N5457 with -1v cutoff would be biased at 5.4v + 0.7v = 6.1v.
For buffer stage at the end we used a 2N5457 with the highest cutoffs we had. We also swapped out C16 for a 10nF to remove some high end fizz.
Makes it way more versatile. Will still chug with the best of them with the gain up, but can do this with it down:
Juansolo -realistically I'm not going to be able to build it up until at least mid Jan, but thanks for the advice! I've never matched fets before so always good to learn new stuff :) that video sounds absolutely amazing!
Quote from: Luke51411 on December 19, 2014, 01:05:33 AM
Someday someone will ask "do you build pedals?" And I'll answer "no I collect pcbs, this 1st edition limited release danger zone is going to be worth something one day"
Maybe we should get one of those stamp collector albums, only for PCB's :-)
Quote from: GermanCdn on December 18, 2014, 09:40:03 PM
Your wife will grow numb to it soon enough, provided you don't leave resistor leads in the carpet, in which case, you're a dead man.
Agreed...I can take the occasional lead through the foot. It's a small price to pay for such a satisfying addiction...I mean hobby. My wife and children are less forgiving:) I blame it on the dog tipping over the trash can. My wife entertained it the first time (or least pretended to) but I need to come up with another cover;)
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Quote from: PhiloB on December 19, 2014, 02:22:05 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on December 18, 2014, 09:40:03 PM
Your wife will grow numb to it soon enough, provided you don't leave resistor leads in the carpet, in which case, you're a dead man.
Agreed...I can take the occasional lead through the foot. It's a small price to pay for such a satisfying addiction...I mean hobby. My wife and children are less forgiving:) I blame it on the dog tipping over the trash can. My wife entertained it the first time (or least pretended to) but I need to come up with another cover;)
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I would use the dog excuse but it's the only place my dog didn't go in the old house. now i have a whole basement to fill with PCB yummyness, scattered cut leads, and aluminum filings!
Quote from: PhiloB on December 19, 2014, 02:22:05 PM
Quote from: GermanCdn on December 18, 2014, 09:40:03 PM
Your wife will grow numb to it soon enough, provided you don't leave resistor leads in the carpet, in which case, you're a dead man.
Agreed...I can take the occasional lead through the foot. It's a small price to pay for such a satisfying addiction...I mean hobby. My wife and children are less forgiving:) I blame it on the dog tipping over the trash can. My wife entertained it the first time (or least pretended to) but I need to come up with another cover;)
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I think I've shared this before, but if not, here we go.
To avoid/minimize the possibility of resistor/cap/socket leads/offcuts making it to the floor, I mount a fly tying (my other vice, pun intended) material collector on my build desk. This is commonly referred to as the "Divorce Preventer" in the fly tying world, as little pieces of feather/deer hair/rabbit fur floating around your house will make your wife seriously unhappy (almost as much as when you use the "good" coffee grinder to mix a fine blend of fox/rabbit fur dubbing, which explains why we have two coffee grinders, one clearly labelled FOR COFFEE ONLY). They are deep enough to contain a massive amount of offcuts, the are lined so no parts get stuck in the fabric, the are big enough to do all of your cutting over, and they are small enough that they don't get in your way. Once the leads start building up, I suck them out with the Shop Vac (don't use the good vacuum, refer to the good coffee grinder story above) and then dump the shop vac into the garbage in the garage. This technique has almost eliminated stray resistor leads in my build area.
The unit I use is similar to this one, only it's the desk mounted version not the vise mounted version. You can find them at any Cabelas/Bass Pro Shop/Sportmans Warehouse, or any fly fishing store in your area.
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Fishing/Fly-Fishing/Fly-Tying/Tools-Vises%7C/pc/104793480/c/104721480/sc/104340780/i/103884480/Cabelas-Material-Collector/709467.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Ftools-vises%2F_%2FN-1100441%2FNo-0%2FNs-CATEGORY_SEQ_103884480%3FWTz_l%3DSBC%253BBRcms196%253Bcat104340780%26WTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNP%26recordsPerPage%3D48&WTz_l=SBC%3BBRcms196%3Bcat104340780%3Bcat103884480
I run around my work place once in a while with a Neodym magnet
Sometimes I put on a Magneto Helmet just too make it funnier ...
Quote from: drolo on December 19, 2014, 03:53:42 PM
I run around my work place once in a while with a Neodym magnet
Sometimes I put on a Magneto Helmet just too make it funnier ...
tried to picture this, wet myself laughing! Haha!
Mr postman just delivered another 22 boards for me, my stash is getting bigger! Got my revised Don't Eat Yellow Snow boards, and some for a silicone fuzz face. Gonna try them as best as I can, but not sure I have all the parts for one of them. These boards are stupidly small, but should be quite newbie friendly :)
(http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/14/12/19/580c4c43549cb0fd74475512b9c68bd8.jpg)
They're gonna have to start making smaller enclosures... haha I want to get into smd but I'm just getting my TH component stock built up.
Quote from: Luke51411 on December 19, 2014, 04:41:34 PM
They're gonna have to start making smaller enclosures... haha I want to get into smd but I'm just getting my TH component stock built up.
I reckon I can shrink those boards down by a considerable about by removing board mounted pots, and wire 9mm ones in, then I could get them in the same enclosure as the tiny one I used for the buffer.
If you want, I can supply a board with all the SMD components for it for you to try out.
Internet just makes it too easy to impulse buy, push the button and you get a reward at some random time in the future, such a thrill getting those rewards, gotta keep pushing that button...
You need to ask yourself, why wouldn't you want every pcb out there!!!! I have like a pile of 30 unbuilt easy. For every 1 I don't want to build, there are about 5 that I do.
I always clip my boards straight into an emptied out and washed Vegemite jar. I've already filled one up, now I'm working on another :)
Quote from: alanp on December 20, 2014, 01:25:43 AM
I always clip my boards straight into an emptied out and washed Vegemite jar. I've already filled one up, now I'm working on another :)
If you don't clean out the vegemite when stuffing boards in it makes great flux... well not really... but it smells good under heat... ;)
Quote from: davent on December 19, 2014, 11:50:07 PM
Internet just makes it too easy to impulse buy, push the button and you get a reward at some random time in the future, such a thrill getting those rewards, gotta keep pushing that button...
That says it right there. The pleasure of little packages and envelopes arriving at random intervals with the click of a mouse. Like the lab rat experiments where they push the little button with their little noses and their pleasure centers are stimulated... Buzzt Buzzt Buzzt to the exclusion of eating drinking or sleeping they lay lathargic and wasting away only to Bzzzt one last time.
We have to box these things so that regulates our behavior to a certain degree. Having to think of art, drilling, etching or laser engraving little metal boxes saves us from Death By PCB Addiction or as it is now called in medical journals DBPCBA. Which is a subset of Terminal GAS or TERGAS.
Our only hope is to find the tipping point, that balance between solder fumes and stacks of PCBs where we find peace, hyper focused on the never ending quest for the perfect sound that comes from the deepest recesses of our creative spirits oneness with the longitudinal sound pressure waves we create by manipulating the very atoms that the universe is made of... I for one say "Let the universe speak!"
So, through our fingers we proclaim Freedom! Damn the torpedoes! Let's Buy More PCBs!