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Thank you. 

Six new builds on the horizon. I don't know which one to do first.

Need to pick up a pepper spray before its gone for good

Looks like I'm building 4 pedals in April!

Replacement of r25 with the correct value has really made a huge difference. I'm going to play with this some more and triple-check the values of my other resistors.

Thanks very much for the help.

Just another guess but pos 2 and 4 are both connecting to 6 and 8 from the schematic which just connects 10v through r25....are you sure r25 is ok? can you get an ohm reading of 2m2 between the 10v and switch pin6?

Sheesh.... It would appear I have installed a 2k2 instead of a 2M2 in R25.

I bet that has something to do with it. 

Have you made sure that the switch is working properly? Do you get continuity between A and 1, and also between B and 5 when you have it in position 1?

I do. I said I got effect in postions 2 and 4, that was reading left to right... actual switch positions that the effect works in are 1 and 3. 2 and 4 pass signal and the fuzz control works, but no envelope.

It wouldn't have surprised me if I had installed the switch incorrectly, but it seems to be correct. Thanks for the suggestion though

In position 1 I have continuity between:
A1 - A2 - B5

Position 2:
A1 - A2 - B6 - B8

Position 3:
A3 - A4 -B7

Position 4:
A3 - A4 - B6 - B8

I finished up my HoneyDripper and noticed something strange.

Switch Positions 2 and 4 sound right. Position 4 has a little bit of squealing in the background, but positions 1 and 3 aren't getting any envelope applied. The sweep control does nothing, but the fuzz (clean) seems to work.

I'm checking the values on everything, but I just wanted to see if there was something stupidly obvious to check.

I don't have any spare CA3080Es to test but I tried swapping out all the other ICs to no avail.

As per the build instructions I changed the values on a few components:

C2: 680pf Ceramic disc
R5: 270K
R21: 2K

I took voltage readings of all the ICs as well:

ic4 jrc 4558

1   4.42
2   4.48
3   4.46
4   0
5   4.45   
6   4.48
7   4.42   
8   14.62


ic2 ca3080e

1   0
2   4.48
3   4.48
4   0
5   .032
6   4.48
7   14.55
8   0

ic3 ca3080e

1   0
2   4.48
3   4.48
4   0
5   0.424
6   4.47
7   14.52
8   0


ic5 lm324n

1   .426
2   .426
3   .426
4   14.4
5   4.28
6   4.48
7   .035
8   5
9   2.472
10   2.469
11   0
12   2.469
13   2.487
14   .032


ic1  lm324n
1   4.47
2   4.47
3   4.47
4   14.44
5   4.47
6   4.46
7   4.35
8   4.46
9   4.47
10   4.47
11   0
12   4.42
13   4.47
14   4.5


ic6 lt1054cp

1   1.363
2   4.01
3   0
4   .003
5   .174
6   2.532
7   1.392
8   8.05


Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I've had several orders executed quickly and flawlessly in the past. The only hiccup is my latest order. A couple VTL5C3 vactrols for my Nautilus weren't in the order.

Email has gotten me nowhere. Called somebody over there a week ago, said he'd fix it. Still have yet to hear any acknowledgement that a new package will be going out.

I'd let it go if it wasn't $25 worth of parts missing. :/

Update: I immediately got an email from Isaac @ Mammoth letting me know the parts *DID* in fact go out, and he gave me tracking info. Everything is good, and Mammoth will continue to be my go-to place for parts.

I've had several orders executed quickly and flawlessly in the past. The only hiccup is my latest order. A couple VTL5C3 vactrols for my Nautilus weren't in the order.

Email has gotten me nowhere. Called somebody over there a week ago, said he'd fix it. Still have yet to hear any acknowledgement that a new package will be going out.

I'd let it go if it wasn't $25 worth of parts missing. :/

I populated the board last week, but I had to wait for my PT2399 to come in before I could quickly wire this thing up and give it a test drive. By test drive, I mean play with it for 3 hours.

This thing is so much fun. I love the sounds it makes.




I didn't have a 750k ohm resistor so I combined a couple values and got within 20k, I think. Will need to replace that when I get a chance. 1/4 watt because that's what I have, and mostly ceramic disc caps because that's how I roll, lol.

I also picked up some of those 3PDT daughter boards to try out. Makes hooking up the switches and jacks and everything dead simple.



I'm going to use the 190B enclosure for this, but I'll still need to rewire. This is a very cool delay and really simple to build.

ULTRA clean.

It's a stomp / stash box!

Is the pre-order stuff still shipping this week?

I updated the Projects page yesterday with new info:

04.05 - Pre-Orders are still being manufactured. Shipping has been moved until the second week of April. I will announce a firm shipping date on the forum once I receive confirmation from the manufacturer.

Thanks, I was about to ask this myself. I've been getting antsy waiting to build my Cave Dweller

Looks good. I will certainly check them out.

That reminds me of my order from Mammoth. Everything was nicely packaged and labeled in dozens of little ziplock bags. Those should come in handy for picking parts for my next build.

Love the retro look. Looks like a panel off a 1960s nuclear reactor or something.

I thought the 'B' enclosure was small, that's positively tiny.  Looks good.