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Welcome back Mike! Place wasn't the same without you 

I've been slowing down myself with regards to building so, if you ever need anything... just gimme a shout!

What he's saying is that you eagerly wait to click the button till the last second with  your max bid entered in the box. Thats how I've always done it. You have to enter what you are willing to pay. You won't get a second chance.

Ahhh... Got it now!

Do a lot of people really do that? If you know your maximum bid, why wait until the very last second to enter it?  Why not just place a bid with your max and be done with it (like I do)? Weird!

It can do that without a sniping program.  I tend to put in last minute bids with my max dollar so I don't keep going back and upping my offer in an attempt to win.  eBay will automatically rebid on my behalf until I hit that max or win.  It can easily generate 17 bids in 20 seconds if there is one other person bidding.  It's just the way eBay's software works.  FWIW, I've never used a sniping program.

As far as I remember, eBay's "max bid" software does not wait until the closing seconds to out-bid someone. For example, lets say someone places a max bid of $100 on an item and they are the current high bidder at $65. When another bidder bids or sets their own max bid of $90, the eBay model will run up and out-bid in favor of the original $100 bidder (like up to $91) to maintain their stance as the current high bidder. It does this immediately. It does not wait until the last seconds of an auction and does not let the second bidder get into the "highest bidder" position until the closing seconds and THEN start to outbid. Sniping programs do this.

If it's not "Buy it now" at a reasonable price, I'll stick the maximum in that I'm happy to pay as my bid in and forget about it.  Sometimes it works (really well, under my max), sometimes it doesn't.  90% of my ebay purchases aren't essential for anything so I'm not super fussed.

I operate the same way. I just hate it when you end up losing the auction and then see in the bid history that the winner placed 17 bids in the last 20 seconds!

... why I hate to use Ebay.

Went against my usual rules and went to bid on an Ebay item only to get "sniped" in the last 30 seconds  REALLY wish they would ban the use of sniping programs. Takes all the fun out of bidding. (and being the "winning" bidder)

Oh well, at least I was able to drive the price up for the winner 

Well I'll be damned. I diagnosed the transistor correctly then installed the bitch backwards. Great catch, I'm a moron.

Thanks for the help!

It has happened to all of us at some time. Glad you got it sorted!

I found this talkbass for sale post and it's got a gut shot, and the transistors are installed the same direction.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/zvex-super-duper-2-in-1-sa-special-edition.1411791/

I see one picture of the guts and I cannot tell which direction they are in. Regardless, it only takes a second to verify if they are in correctly by using a pinout and the schematic.

I thought that too, but that's how they were when I opened it up. I only ever pulled the one out. And the one I didn't pull, that is the side that works fine.

Might be worth another look when compared to the transistors installed and the schematic.

Are the transistors installed properly? According to the silkscreen, it looks like they are reversed. (No idea if you substituted)

There we go, now it's visible 😂

My apologies sir! Looks like I need to call the optometrist 

I did teepee some bat46 and 4148s to get the originals diodes .9fv and a better output level.

Am I missing this somewhere? Looks like all the diodes are singles lying flat.

Sweet build none the less 

#1: Definitely need to do some re-soldering. Flux and patience...
#2: Is your Output grounded? Looks like the output wire on the main PCB is shorted to ground.

EDIT: Nevermind about shorted output. If it was, you wouldn't even have clean output 

If your mission is going to be bringing doom to the world with this beast, at least tell me you will be putting a Power Puff Girls sticker on it. 

I'm just surprised you got a reply 

I have emails with several follow-ups from about 2 YEARS ago that still have no replies.

But if I can't put the CL anywhere on the board without issues, it's unusable.

Does your amp have an effects loop?