One for the beginners: Dead Easy Dirt

Teej212 · Post by **Teej212** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 6:54 pm

i would try wiring the circuit without the switch first. its a stepping stone to getting a fully functional pedal.

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:26 pm

Teej212 wrote:i would try wiring the circuit without the switch first. its a stepping stone to getting a fully functional pedal.

Great idea. When I'm testing out a board, I never wire it up with a switch until I've already verified it's all good.

That reminds me: I need to build a testing enclosure with all that shit wired up. I've been stalling on that since the middle of 2007. :lol:

Teej212 · Post by **Teej212** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:44 pm

i built one but i keep salvaging parts from it :facepalm:

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:46 pm

I built one last week and it didn't work. Been tossed aside ever since :facepalm:

Now I can't even make a test board, let alone a pedal, wtf?...something to do with that funky switch wiring :grumpy:

Teej212 · Post by **Teej212** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:01 pm

wiring stuff sucks. I always admire this one guy on diystompboxes who doesnt use ANY wires. such sexy sexy builds.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:29 pm

Teej212 wrote:wiring stuff sucks. I always admire this one guy on diystompboxes who doesnt use ANY wires. such sexy sexy builds.

How do you not use any wires?

Also, anyone else want to draw up a diagram or take photos of theirs so we can compare?

Teej212 · Post by **Teej212** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:50 pm

like this

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:52 pm

Holy whoa...

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 12:55 am

Ok, I'm beginning troubleshooting my wiring.

So far:

Input Jack: Check.

Output Jack: Check. (One question here, on BeavisAR they show the ground used here separate from the ground used for the other components. I however used only 1 ground point. Problem?)

Foot Switch: See diagram (?)

Potentiometer: See diagram (?)

LED: Check.

Power: Check.

One thing has occurred to me. I wired the pot as though the view in the schematic was looking at the back of it. Is it perhaps assuming a front view and my connections are reversed?

morange · Post by **morange** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 3:24 am

Did you wire your output jack right? From your diagram on page two, it looks like you might have wired it in reverse.

: mono jack.jpg (15.83 KiB) Viewed 2852 times

The output jack in the Beavis Audio Stompbox Wiring diagram is drawn wrong.

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:32 am

morange wrote:The output jack in the Beavis Audio Stompbox Wiring diagram is drawn wrong.

Damn...

That may be it. Got to go to work now, but I'll check when I get home tonight. I think that is the problem. Thanks man.

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:29 pm

jfrey wrote:One thing has occurred to me. I wired the pot as though the view in the schematic was looking at the back of it. Is it perhaps assuming a front view and my connections are reversed?

I'm almost positive this would do nothing but reverse the direction of rotation...like you normally turn to the right for "more," it would make it turn left for "more."

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:35 pm

Jero wrote:
jfrey wrote:One thing has occurred to me. I wired the pot as though the view in the schematic was looking at the back of it. Is it perhaps assuming a front view and my connections are reversed?

I'm almost positive this would do nothing but reverse the direction of rotation...like you normally turn to the right for "more," it would make it turn left for "more."

Ok. Well I guess I have it wired correctly then anyway.

* Nifty but kinda pointless idea: Make a fuzz with an oscillation switch, wire the pots backwards, and call it the "Counter Fuzzwise Rotation"

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:06 pm

Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!1!111!!! :!!!:

Got it working! My first successful build!!! :!!!:

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 9:25 pm

Good for you, buddy. :thumb:

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