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!
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.
"B"
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.
"B"