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SECTION 4 - Wiring the Jacks, Pots, Footswitch and Terminal Strips
Please refer to DRAWING 2
1) Strip and tin a 6 ½" piece of wire and connect the input jack's tip lug to footswitch lug 2.
Stripping and tinning wire:
Throughout these instructions you will be told to strip and tin a length
of wire numerous times. Unless noted otherwise, cut the wire to the length stated in the
instructions. Then strip ¼” of insulation off each end. Twist each end of the stranded wire, and
apply a small amount of solder to each end (tin the wire ends). This will prevent the stranded wire
from fraying and will make the final soldering much easier.
2) Strip and tin a 6 ½" piece of wire and connect the output jack's tip lug to footswitch lug 5.
3) Strip and tin a 1 ¾" piece of wire and connect footswitch lugs 1 and 4 to each other.
4) Strip and tin a 1" piece of wire and connect pot lug 1 to terminal #22.
5) Strip and tin a 3" piece of wire and connect terminal #2 to terminal #18.
6) Strip and tin a 3 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #3 to terminal #20.
7) Strip and tin a 6 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #4 to pot lug 3.
Do NOT solder the pot
connection, yet.
8) Strip and tin a 1 ½" piece of wire and connect pot lug 3 to footswitch lug 6.
Now solder the pot
connection.
9) Strip and tin a 4 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #10 to terminal #21.
10) Strip and tin a 5 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #6 to terminal #23.
11) Strip and tin a 2" piece of wire and connect terminal #13 to terminal #15.
12) Strip and tin a 4" piece of wire and connect terminal #17 to footswitch lug 3.
13) Strip and tin a 1 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #16 to the DC power jack's center-pin
lug.
14) Strip and tin a 3 ½" piece of wire and connect terminal #11 to the DC power jack's positive lug.
Tip: Wires should be routed as close to the bottom of the base enclosure as
possible in order to make mounting the components easier later in the assembly
process. Consider making wire connections to the lower terminal holes and leaving
the upper part of the terminals for component connections.
lower holes
SECTION 5 - Mounting the Components
Please refer to DRAWING 3
1) Connect a .22
µ
F cap to pot lug 2 and terminal #23.
Unless noted otherwise, “connect” means to trim the component’s leads to a reasonable length, wrap them tightly
around their connection points and solder. (See “Soldering Tips” on page 6).