ElectroSmash Germanium Fuzz Manual Download Page 10

 

After placing the 5mm  metal LED holder, you need to box the electronics, take your 
time and be patient: 

 

Make sure that all the soldered parts have their legs cut as close as possible 
to the PCB 

 

Don’t force the parts into the holes –be gentle- , they are designed to be tight 
but not  forced.  If they  seem to be stuck,  remove  the electronics and  start 

again. 

 

The best way to enclose the board is to try to fit all the parts through the holes 
at the same time (not simply inserting one jack after the other).  

 

It is easier is you start with the 2 jacks, the LED and the footswitch (inserting 
the 4 of them on the holes at the same time). 

 
Note: The LED has to be placed but not soldered yet. The 

negative pin (shorter on the flat side of the LED) goes into 
the square hole, and the positive pin into the upper round 

hole. 
 
 

 

 
 
When all is in place, you can finally fit the washers & nuts and solder the red LED. 

Summary of Contents for Germanium Fuzz

Page 1: ...at will help you during the assembly We strongly recommend reviewing the entire instructions before starting It takes 2 minutes and may save you hours of frustration This guide aims to build and test...

Page 2: ...wded so let s place them first to have a neat job Don t cover the hollow centre of the turret you can just add a little quantity of solder to keep it in place Later on the turrets will be fully solder...

Page 3: ...ng them with a curved object pen Don t force the cables many times or do hard bents they may break STEP 3 Place the big components Top Side Bottom Side Solder on top side Solder on bottom side Solder...

Page 4: ...is perpendicular solder the rest of the pins Note STEP 4 Testing the Power Supply At this point the power supply of the circuit could be checked Place a mono guitar cable at the input jack a 9V batter...

Page 5: ...rs you have to pre set them to a good value Using a multimeterin resistormode measure between pins 1 and 2 adjusting them to Note Take care that the spring does not touch any pads it has to be raised...

Page 6: ...Note The transistors have to be close but not touching each other If you have transistors with different gains Hfe it is betterto use the one with lower gain as Q1 and the one with higher gain on Q2...

Page 7: ...depend on the temperature so it may change during the time So don t try to get a super accurate bias level As far as the values are close to 0 7 and 4 5V it will be great Input jack needed to power i...

Page 8: ...ect length for the leads and solder it Note The 100pF Cx Miller capacitors are optional They help to reduce the noise of the pedal but also may affect the fuzz tone You can try them although the origi...

Page 9: ...the 1590B Germanium Fuzz Stencil Use a cutter to separate the stickers and place the black pad on the bottom Place the 2 plastic insulators one need to be cut following the stencil using double side...

Page 10: ...art again The best way to enclose the board is to try to fit all the parts through the holes at the same time not simply inserting one jack after the other It is easier is you start with the 2 jacks t...

Page 11: ...This is the final finished project...

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