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They're not on the site year, but I do have drilled enclosures available (one and two footswitch versions). Two of them have been sandblasted and are kinda sparkley looking.

Has anyone finished theirs yet?

I CAN guarantee these PCBs work. Just built up another one tonight.
I second the caution on not overheating the IC chip. Also, make sure your caps and diodes are oriented the right way.

What is this Snowflake?

Tom Dalton wrote:Has anyone finished theirs yet?

I've soldered up the PCB. Just waiting on my shipment from pedal parts plus. I'm probably going to put it in this....

Alright so I'm fairly new at making my own pedals and I decided to take on the double footswitch version, but I'm not quite sure how to wire up the second 3pdt switch. I've seen a couple pictures of the fingerprint gutshots and I can pick out 4 wires, the two from the board, one to the LED, then I can't tell where the other one goes. Can anyone help an ILFbrother out?

transients wrote:Alright so I'm fairly new at making my own pedals and I decided to take on the double footswitch version, but I'm not quite sure how to wire up the second 3pdt switch. I've seen a couple pictures of the fingerprint gutshots and I can pick out 4 wires, the two from the board, one to the LED, then I can't tell where the other one goes. Can anyone help an ILFbrother out?

Here's one way to do it.
Power goes to the same lug (middle front) on both 3PDTs.

nbabmf wrote:What is this Snowflake?

in short: Snowflake is a Snowdrift offshoot, sort of remake of the Penny Pedals Fingerprint.

Tom Dalton wrote:

transients wrote:Alright so I'm fairly new at making my own pedals and I decided to take on the double footswitch version, but I'm not quite sure how to wire up the second 3pdt switch. I've seen a couple pictures of the fingerprint gutshots and I can pick out 4 wires, the two from the board, one to the LED, then I can't tell where the other one goes. Can anyone help an ILFbrother out?

Here's one way to do it.
Power goes to the same lug (middle front) on both 3PDTs.

Alright, I've got the pedal working and I've got the gain bypass footswitch working, BUT the gain LED doesn't turn on or off. I have the positive wire going to the same spot as the main bypass LED's positive is going to (the 9v adapter, and the main bypass LED works) and the negative to the middle lug of the 3pdt, just like on the diagram you posted. I put a wire from one of the pow pads of the circuitboard to the bottom middle lug but it didn't change anything so I took it out. I'm pretty close to a total noob, so it's probably something really dumb that I don't understand about 3pdt switches

transients wrote:
Alright, I've got the pedal working and I've got the gain bypass footswitch working, BUT the gain LED doesn't turn on or off. I have the positive wire going to the same spot as the main bypass LED's positive is going to (the 9v adapter, and the main bypass LED works) and the negative to the middle lug of the 3pdt, just like on the diagram you posted. I put a wire from one of the pow pads of the circuitboard to the bottom middle lug but it didn't change anything so I took it out. I'm pretty close to a total noob, so it's probably something really dumb that I don't understand about 3pdt switches

The POW eyelets are for "power out"...run one wire from each POW eyelet to the front-middle lug of each switch. Then the red wire from the LED goes in the middle lug of the switch.

Tom Dalton wrote:

transients wrote:
Alright, I've got the pedal working and I've got the gain bypass footswitch working, BUT the gain LED doesn't turn on or off. I have the positive wire going to the same spot as the main bypass LED's positive is going to (the 9v adapter, and the main bypass LED works) and the negative to the middle lug of the 3pdt, just like on the diagram you posted. I put a wire from one of the pow pads of the circuitboard to the bottom middle lug but it didn't change anything so I took it out. I'm pretty close to a total noob, so it's probably something really dumb that I don't understand about 3pdt switches

The POW eyelets are for "power out"...run one wire from each POW eyelet to the front-middle lug of each switch. Then the red wire from the LED goes in the middle lug of the switch.

ahhh duh. I wired up my other bypass switch slightly differently so I was in black-wire-to-switch mode, totally didn't catch that they were red on the diagram! that's what I get for trying to make a pedal at 2am but now it's done and working completely! and it's quite awesome might I add.

Yah i'm about 95% done Just a couple of questions. Hopefully you guys can help.

- In terms of grounding - Should the footswitch be grounded somehow? With the unused lug? At the moment I have the the PCB ground connected to the sleeve of the output jack. The sleeve of the input jack goes the ground on the 9v jack. The 'ring' of the input jack is not currently connected to anything.

- What resistor should I be putting on the LED? It's 3mm, ultra violet. The online calculator said 330ohms but I dont know if I used it right. Does that sound correct?

- Just to make sure this thing is working and sounding right - texture knob down = sputtery? And if you play a note and then roll back the texture it makes a pop towards the end of the sweep. And when you have the texture about halfway and dig in on the strings the pedal will do the glitchy sound and the internal LED will pop on brightly.

Hope that makes sense!

Tom Dalton wrote:

transients wrote:
Alright, I've got the pedal working and I've got the gain bypass footswitch working, BUT the gain LED doesn't turn on or off. I have the positive wire going to the same spot as the main bypass LED's positive is going to (the 9v adapter, and the main bypass LED works) and the negative to the middle lug of the 3pdt, just like on the diagram you posted. I put a wire from one of the pow pads of the circuitboard to the bottom middle lug but it didn't change anything so I took it out. I'm pretty close to a total noob, so it's probably something really dumb that I don't understand about 3pdt switches

The POW eyelets are for "power out"...run one wire from each POW eyelet to the front-middle lug of each switch. Then the red wire from the LED goes in the middle lug of the switch.

Where abouts does the negative leg of the LED go to? Do you supply an off-board wiring diagram with the full kits? Is there any chance you could post it?

Triple post! So i think I got my grounding issues sorted. I connected the ring of the input to the sleeve of the output, and then to the bottom centre lug on the footswitch. The pedal sounds 100x better now Now I just need to work out this LED thing

Finished (I think). Managed to sort out the grounding and LED with a bit of common sense

Terrible photos, but this is what I ended up with...

Holy shit, that's nice!!!