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Quick Zendrive Clone Question

Started by Telf, May 08, 2017, 09:38:47 PM

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Telf

Hey guys, I'm building my first perfboard pedal and have decided to go with the Zendrive clone on tagboard effects however there's a couple of small things I'm unsure about.

http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/hermida-zendrive.html

Firstly, according to the picture above I have to wire take a wire from the board to lugs 1 & 2 on the voice pot and another to lugs 1 & 2 on the tone pot. What is the best way to go about this? Should I solder two wires into the individual hole on the board or is it better to run one wire from the board to the pot and just bridge the lugs there?

My second question is about the capacitors that I received in the kit that I bought from the following link:

https://www.bitsbox.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=280_281&products_id=2048&zenid=fng64o47g6vbrj9ghqtcb91mf2

One of the 470nF capacitors is polyester film and the other is polybox but the layout doesn't specify which one goes where so I've put them in as follows:

http://i.imgur.com/3hqHNzp.jpg

Does it matter which goes where, and if so have I got them the right way around?

Thanks in advance folks!
Telf


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Willybomb

a) I strip a longer part at one end of the wire and use that to link across the two lugs on the pot.

b) If you have two 470n of different types, I don't think it matters too much - I've used green caps and boxes interchangeably.  Not sure why they've given you the two types or why they feel the need to, but they've given you exactly what they said they would on the parts list on their page.

AntKnee

As stated, the best way to wire that would be to strip the wire a little long and run the bare wire through both lugs of the pot. This is much more efficient and better looking than running two wires from one hole on the perf. They both accomplish the same result, though. You just need to connect it all somehow.

Without getting too techy, film caps are film caps. Mix em, match em, it doesn't matter which you put where in almost any pedal circuit. Just make sure you dont interchange electrolytic, ceramic, and film.
I build, and once in a while I might sell, pedals as "Vertigo Effects".