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Re: nope, those wires are correct

6/13/2000 6:11 PM
Jake	Re: nope, those wires are correct Chuck, Try this: Desolder the center wire of your Volume pot at the stomp switch end. Now unsolder the PCB end of the wire going to the center lug your drive pot. Solder this wire to the DPDT switch so that your drive pot is now connected to the DPDT. You should have bypass/ 1st minibooster. The drive pot will work like a volume control when going through the minibooster. This will simplify your challenge, and the point is to now make that first minibooster working. (This is a little trick I learned from RG not too long ago!) As Aron, says, triple check everything... values, orientation, polarity. Measure resistances across resistors from the solder side of the PCB. And hit all your soldered leads with an iron just to be sure, being on the look out for solder bridges. If you have no signal, this may mean either a short to ground or a bad solder joint. If the minibooster works then your problem is in the tone circuit or second minibooster. Jake

6/13/2000 6:11 PM

Jake

Re: nope, those wires are correct

Chuck,

Try this: Desolder the center wire of your Volume pot at the stomp switch end. Now unsolder the PCB end of the wire going to the center lug your drive pot. Solder this wire to the DPDT switch so that your drive pot is now connected to the DPDT. You should have bypass/ 1st minibooster. The drive pot will work like a volume control when going through the minibooster. This will simplify your challenge, and the point is to now make that first minibooster working. (This is a little trick I learned from RG not too long ago!)

As Aron, says, triple check everything... values, orientation, polarity. Measure resistances across resistors from the solder side of the PCB. And hit all your soldered leads with an iron just to be sure, being on the look out for solder bridges. If you have no signal, this may mean either a short to ground or a bad solder joint.

If the minibooster works then your problem is in the tone circuit or second minibooster.

Jake

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aron Good ideas. If Chuck uses the au... -- 6/13/2000 6:28 PM