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• 10K resistor x 6 - two on the top row, four on the bottom row
• 100K resistor x 9 - six on the top row, three on the bottom row
• 47K resistor x 7 - four on the top row, three on the bottom row
• 24K resistor x 2 - one on the top row, one on the bottom row, both in the centre
• 12K resistor x 1 - bottom row, on the right
• 3K3 resistor x 1 - bottom row, on the right
• 560R resistor x 1 - bottom row, far left

Cup of tea and soldering check

When you’ve finished doing the resistors, stop and have a cup of tea and spend a few minutes 
looking over your solder joints and making sure everything’s ok so far. 

Power protection diode

Install the fat black 1N4002 diode in the bottom right corner of the PCB. This protects the PCB 
against reverse voltage, so be sure to check the orientation carefully.

IC sockets

All four 8-pin DIP sockets are arranged the same way around down the centre of the PCB. It helps 
to solder only a couple of corner pins first, and then give the socket a check. If it’s sitting correctly 
and orientated the right way around, you can solder the rest of the pins. If not, it’s much easier to 
adjust it with only two pins soldered. Removing IC sockets from plated-through-hole PCBs like this 
one is difficult and not recommended.

Regulator

The 78L05 +5V regulator REG1 is in the bottom right corner next to the power protection diode. 
Be sure to line up the flat side and the curved side with the markings on the PCB. Don’t mix it up 
with the similar-looking transistor. 

Transistor

The 2N3904 transistor TR1 is in the centre row, far left. Again, be sure to line up the flat side and 
the curved side with the markings on the PCB.

Ceramic bypass capacitors

There are three 100n ceramic power supply bypass capacitors, one beside the FLANGE chip, and 
two more one either side of the 5V regulator you just fitted. These are 

not

 the 100n film caps on 

the bottom row far left. Don’t mix them up!

Film capacitors

There are quite a few of these. Take your time.

• 100n (104, 0.1u) capacitor x 2 - bottom row, far left
• 1n (102, 0.001u) capacitor x 1 - bottom row, centre left
• 150p (150) capacitor x 2 - one on the top row, one on the bottom, both centre left
• 33n (333, 0.033u) capacitor x 1 - top row, far left

Flangelicious Construction Guide

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Summary of Contents for Flangelicious

Page 1: ...capacitors 3 Film capacitors 3 Electrolytic capacitors 4 Preset resistors Trimmers 4 Second cup of tea and Power Test 4 Potentiometers 4 Install ICs 5 Off board wiring 6 Adjustments and final testing 6 Bill of Materials 8 Offboard components 9 Component choices and substitutions 9 Ideas for potential upgrades or customizations 10 Adding CV inputs 10 Adding Expression pedal inputs 10 Adding more sw...

Page 2: ...p flanging Build Instructions You re advised to have a read through of these instructions before starting work on the PCB To keep these instructions reasonably brief it is assumed that you know how to orientate common components Populate the PCB The board should be populated in order from smallest components to tallest The BOM on page 8 is arranged in this order so start at the top and work your w...

Page 3: ...y around you can solder the rest of the pins If not it s much easier to adjust it with only two pins soldered Removing IC sockets from plated through hole PCBs like this one is difficult and not recommended Regulator The 78L05 5V regulator REG1 is in the bottom right corner next to the power protection diode Be sure to line up the flat side and the curved side with the markings on the PCB Don t mi...

Page 4: ...the centre row to the left of the op amps The clock balance trimmer is top right next to the electric druid logo Second cup of tea and Power Test Have a break If you ve got this far you deserve it Also you need to be on top form for the next part testing the power At this stage you can power the board up and check the voltages with a multimeter There should be 9V power across pins 4 and 8 of each ...

Page 5: ...s in it for the legs of the pots to pass through they hold it in place once soldered and it can t fall out This is cheap steal the plastic from work simple get a grown up to help you with the scissors and effective none have blown up yet Install ICs If the voltage check was ok you can install the four chips two dual op amps the BBD and the Electric Druid FLANGE chip The PCB is done Well done Drill...

Page 6: ...ur particular LED Adjustments and final testing Ok it s the moment of truth Power it up and plug it in With a bit of care and attention you should now have a working flangerlicious pedal Let s get it tuned up There are two trimmers on the PCB that need adjusting The first is the resonance trim Res Turn the resonance knob on the far right up to maximum It s possible that the pedal will start to how...

Page 7: ...be aiming for 100mV or less You can also adjust the trim by ear With no input signal turn the guitar down to zero turn the amp up loud until you can hear the background noise and then adjust the trim to minimize the noise You re done Congratulations and enjoy your new pedal PS We appreciate any feedback suggestions or thoughts you have about this pedal or any other Druid project Please get in touc...

Page 8: ...78L05 1 14 TR1 NPN Transistor 2N3904 1 15 C14 C17 C19 Ceramic capacitor 100n 3 16 C1 C2 Film capacitor 100n 2 17 C3 Film capacitor 1n 1 18 C4 C10 Film capacitor 150p 2 19 C5 Film capacitor 33n 1 20 C6 C8 Film capacitor 470p 2 21 C7 C9 Film capacitor 3n3 2 22 C11 C12 C15 Film capacitor 470n 3 23 C13 Electrolytic capacitor 1u 1 24 C16 C18 Electrolytic capacitor 47u 2 25 PR1 Preset Resonance Trim 100...

Page 9: ...ead spacing for the film capacitors Transistor choice is not critical Any medium gain low noise NPN device will work The board expects a transistor with the EBC pinout like the 2N3904 If you only have transistors with the alternative CBE pinout like the BC547 you can fit the transistor back to front Similarly op amp choice is not critical Choose any 8 pin dual audio op amp with the standard pinout...

Page 10: ... pedals you can t hurt anything even if it s completely wrong If you get it back to front before you get it the right way around no matter Both versions of the chip allow you to manually sweep the flanger with the farthest left control Manual or Rate Connecting an expression pedal instead of this control would give you a foot pedal wah style flanger Adding more switches and options Both the MULTI ...

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