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Fantastic, can't wait to hear it!


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That's fantastic inside and out.


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That's really awesome man. Sorry to hear about your cutters.


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Also, the Softie will be a kit (sans momentary switch and LED indicator). And, priced very competitively.

Who doesn't love a softie....er...wait....


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Are you pumped for phaser month?? Been meaning to ask you to start an "all about phasers" thread. OTA, opto, JFETs...stages and all. What's what?

Completely, I'm excited to build something that I haven't built yet. I just may start a thread all about phasers. I just moved, it might take a while for me to dig them all out.


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Also, the Softie will be a kit (sans momentary switch and LED indicator). And, priced very competitively.

Who doesn't love a softie....er...wait....


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That's very nice, and a real whole bunch of knobs.


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Mechanical, the metal would separate from the plastic. I've never seen a switch out right fail without overheating it when you're soldering the wires.


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Gotcha. Yeah I sorta figured it either fails at install or not for a long time. That's why this seemed a little weird to me. Odd that it lasted a year+ without issue and with a joint under no mechanical stress.

Very true.


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Mechanical, the metal would separate from the plastic. I've never seen a switch out right fail without overheating it when you're soldering the wires.


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I've just had a 3PDT from a previous build (about a year or so old, regular but not 'strenuous' use) fail. The switch mechanism works as before (from a tactile perspective, at least), but the connection between poles 8 and 9 is no longer being made. Every other switch element behaves as expected (including the connection from 8 to 7). Is this normally how they fail? Replacement is simple and easy, but I'm a little curious about what exactly went wrong.

Did you test it with a meter? Happened to me once, I just had to reflow pin 4. Same type situation too.


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The circuit isn't calibrated for them. Haberdasher is a stand up dude, you can buy his wares with no worries.


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The ones from eBay are most likely fakes the 2n5952s work just fine.  You can post that you're looking in the Buy Sell Trade Lounge. I forget what a good phaser get measured, but it's google searchable.


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Lemme ask you this, where did you get the fets? So you have any other known good ones you can stick in there?


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I hear what you're saying. It isn't a smooth transition. Does it do it even if you lower the speed?

Are all of your resistor values correct?


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Thanks!

I've played with the feedback trimmer some, and it doesn't seem to make much, if any difference. To be honest, I'm not completely sure what effect the Nom/feedback switch is supposed to have, and I'm not too concerned about it at this point. I just mentioned it in case it was relevant.

I've adjusted the other trimmer on both, and it seems to balance between the ends of the sweep. In other words, if you turn it one way, it seems to stay at one end of the sweep longer, and if you turn it the other way, it stays at the other end longer. And if you turn it far enough at least one direction, you get no phasing at all.

But the trimmer doesn't seem to change the fact that it seems to sweep quickly and stay at either end of the sweep instead of of having a slower, smooth sweep.

If all that makes sense?

With the second trimmer you mentioned, you have to find the sweet spot in the middle of the sweep. It's a very very narrow window and very easy to miss because it's so small.


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Maaaaaannnn


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