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*** I've done some more checking and think I've sorted it (see post 3) -- would love to get some feedback if anyone's had a similar issue before -- Thanks ***

I'm about to loose my freakin' mind.  I've got my zombii up and running and for the life of me I cannot get the LED to work.  I am using haberdasher's (sp?) board and, like always, he does fantastic work.  However, for some reason I couldn't get the LED to light when using the pads on the board.  No bother.  I can wire it off board... or so I thought...

I hooked it up per the usual (see the standard madbean diagram here... http://www.madbeanpedals.com/tutorials/downloads/StandardWiring_MBP.pdf

Nothing.

Flipped the polarity incase a momentary lapse of sanity occurred and I forgot how to read the polarity of an LED... still nothing.  So i start poking around and measuring voltages... hmm... voltage across the LED is only like 0.8v... weird... well certainly I must have done something dumb.  So I go and double check the power supply... yep -- about 9v tip to sleeve of the connector from my PP2+.  Oh, and the effect sounds killer and works marvelously in both bypass and with the effect on.  So i measure voltage across the two pads on the 9v tap... 0.8v!!! WTF!?

How the hell can the voltage be 9v on the power supply and 0.8 directly on the other side on the pads of the 9v tap?  I even pulled another tap out and made sure that the laws of physics still apply.  Yep, 9v across the pads of a fresh one that's not in the circuit.

So seriously, can someone try to make some sense of this???  I mean I'm pretty sure this thing is defying the laws of physics right now...

Not my first madbean build and definitely not my last.  Thanks so much for providing these boards, instruction and information to paint-by-number folks like me  

Here is a wolfshirt I built for a friend who asked for a FTM clone.  It sounds AWESOME and has inspired me to build one for myself.  I can't wait!

Hi,
I am helping out with a project and have a friend laying out a board for it.  He says that he will be sending me "Gerber Files" for the layout.  I need to get about 30-50 boards fabricated and I was wondering if someone could point me to somewhere that would do this quantity at a reasonable price.  Please let me know if you have any recommendations.
Thanks so much for your help! 
Cliff

Finished this guy on 4/20 but never took photos until now   





It sounds killer -- I highly recommend the Madbean Slow Loris to the Rat lovers out there.

Yep -- I'm whoring this one out all over the interweb today!