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Dunlop MXR warning!!

D.Don

D.Don

Mar 6, 2008
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#1
Just some important info for those of you who did not already now about this.

The pots (knobs) are soldered to the circuit board with metal legs and can easily break when dropped or something falls on the knobs, in worst case the circuit board can break and the pedal is gone.

Happened to me with a brand new pedal some days ago, luckily the circuit board is ok and only the pot is borked. The guy who now will fix mine is gonna exchange the pots to pots that are not fixed to the circuit board.

Looks like the button and the jacks are the same, will discuss possibility to change that as well, it's REALLY a risk factor.


D.Don
 
#5
diechris said:
and this is new news? line6 does that... pretty sure ExH does that too. its pretty normal for companies to solder pot lugs directly to boards... what people DONT like... is when the 1/4 in and out jacks are directly to the board.
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It's a pretty stupid solution imho, just opened my bass balls here now, and the knob is fixed to the circuit board here as well, why the f-ck do they build them this way?

D.Don
 
#7
D.Don said:
It's a pretty stupid solution imho, just opened my bass balls here now, and the knob is fixed to the circuit board here as well, why the f-ck do they build them this way?

D.Don
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easier and cheaper to build...less chance for noise to be introduced
...less chance of failure due to a wire problem.

in fact the only "bad" thing about it is that if jarred hard enough, it can crack the pcb. a good tech can probably connect the traces, but its likely cheaper to just buy a new pedal.

before you do that though, have you emailed dunlop customer service and told them about the problem "nicely"...
 
#14
Don't yell, it supports your point, I'm just saying that some are even worse than Dunlop at cutting corners.

I hate excusing large companies, but having built a couple of BYOCs into MXR-sized boxes, I can definitely see why they might have to solder things directly to the board in some cases.
 
#15
Swimming Bird said:
Don't yell, it supports your point, I'm just saying that some are even worse than Dunlop at cutting corners.

I hate excusing large companies, but having built a couple of BYOCs into MXR-sized boxes, I can definitely see why they might have to solder things directly to the board in some cases.
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if youre talking to me.. then i wasnt yelling.. usually yelling is typed out by using CAPS. i was just agreeing with you with some enthusiasm.

i dont mind dunlop and i could careless on what companies do to cut corners aslong as the product lasts and sounds good.
 

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