Soda Meiser goodness (+ I am an idiot)

[dmk2113]

So 3 builds and one soldering iron burn later the culprit turned out to be a faulty power jack... oops. Well, the important thing is that now I have a soda meiser and a VFM to play with, and I found a good parts supplier. Thanks to everyone for taking their time to help me!

I'd submit pictures but I am very very very much not artistic, so, uh, everyone imagine an unpainted box with two switches and two black knobs with "V" and "I" written by them in sharpie!

[Nychthemeron]

So you have a VFM/SM switch and a chaos switch I'm guessing? Sounds like a rad time.

[dmk2113]

You got it.

I also learned that in the future, I can avoid this problem by just installing the LED with everything else rather than test the circuit first... could have saved a lot of headaches had I done that in the first place

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

also, testing stuff with a fresh battery is good, too! i keep one around just for just that purpose...

[nbabmf]

You need a multimeter.

[dmk2113]

You need a multimeter.

No, I have one of those, I just need some common sense.

[nbabmf]

You'll eventually figure out what to look for... power getting to the active components, all the grounds connected somehow, etc.

[stanimal]

congrats on getting it working... but you should be easy on yourself, because the SM circuit although small is very particular and not a circuit i would recommend building as a first build.... but still, your debugging skills get better as you build more...

my first build was a fuzz factory clone, i spent two weeks trying to get a sound out of it before finding the problem (burned out 2n3904) and it was a worthwhile frustration indeed....