AUSTINDRIVE Assembly Tutorial Rev 3.02
December, 2020
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THE PEDAL PORT
Throughout this tutorial, I use
The Pedal Port
, a silicone parts
holer molded exclusively for
pedal-building. It grips parts tight
without
scratching, and it doesn’t
suck-out the heat of soldering.
The Pedal Port
is available from
Why aren’t these parts soldered
onto the Circuit Board?
One answer:
Reliability.
Circuit boards, metal enclosures, solder lugs, input jacks and guitar cable plugs don’t bend.
When you constantly plug & unplug rigid components into a circuit board, tweak knobs, and stomp on
switches, those soldered connections on a printed circuit board (“PCB”)
will
fail. It may take years, but
when rigid components move, solder joints on PCBs crack - and electronic things stop working. This is a
major reason why modern electronics and appliances only last a few years, but a 1960’s Tube Amp is still
running.
When rigid connections are “insulated” from the circuit board by a flexible wire, those c
onnections to
the PCB last longer. Maybe forever.
Yes. There are guitar pedal circuit boards where everything is neatly soldered to a circuit board, and it all
fits nicely into an enclosure. That takes all the fun out of it for me. I like wires and colors.
Summary of Contents for AUSTINDRIVE
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