Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Mike** » Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:11 am

Part of my charm is my reasonable prices

Chris it was a one-off custom jobbie, I'm not that keen to do this sort of thing a lot, the wire-up job after all boards were built and tested was about 90 minutes and when football season is over that's tedious.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:17 pm

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:46 pm

Mike, why are you still socketting transistors? Don't they ever fall out?

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:48 pm

No, that never happens.

I socket them because 2n5088s are variable. They are not all created equal in my experience

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:15 pm

I got one of these, makes sorting transistors a doddle:

Post by **Doog** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 4:18 pm

I want to make a lady robot called DARLINGTON

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:28 am

timhulio wrote:I got one of these, makes sorting transistors a doddle:

Looks nifty, but Gain isn't the whole story as far as I know - I have some npns that just sound plain bad in terms of frequecny response.

Concretebadger · Post by **Concretebadger** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 1:32 pm

timhulio wrote:Mike, why are you still socketting transistors? Don't they ever fall out?

Are sockets also useful for peace of mind when soldering? I always worry about the heat from the iron frying them, so decided I might try sockets out next time to be on the safe side.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Jun 11, 2013 4:23 pm

Yeah they're useful for prototyping in that you can swap different transistors or the same transistors with varying gains and leakage to see what's works best.

As for the heat thing, it's possibly counter-intuitive, but if your soldering iron is hot enough and the solder flows freely then the chances of overheating transistors is very small. However, if you've a useless soldering iron and you're hanging around for ages trying to get the solder to melt you've more chance of burning stuff. To put things in perspective, I've never burnt a single transistor in however long I've been doing this, and I was crap at soldering when I started!

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jun 12, 2013 10:45 am

I recommend them for people building their own because if you fuck up a pinout orientation that's not going to be pleasant to fix.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 24, 2013 9:27 am

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 2:29 pm

Get back from Glastonbury, Go back to work

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:27 pm

Yeah mike, well done

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue Jul 02, 2013 3:32 pm

Mike wrote:

That' lovely. When I get some spare money I need to order one.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:31 pm

Fuzzmarines arrived! Thanks mike!!!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 12:51 pm

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 10:15 am

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Gabriel · Post by **Gabriel** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 11:41 am

That Big Muff looks amazing!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jul 29, 2013 3:18 pm

Aye, the simple ones are the best

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jul 30, 2013 11:39 am