The parts showed up today. I ordered the caps and I also ordered the generic version of the gear pot, just in case. To my surprise, this was the .22uf cap: {} Well, no harm in trying, right? {} Plugged it in, and IT WAHS!!!! It wahs just like I thought it would. So thank you for helping me fix this. The order with the extra pot was $15-ish shipped, but the parts to fix this equated to less than $1. Not bad, honestly, a working wah with extra parts for $15 and some effort. Oh, and an extra thing (slightly related) was, I modified my DL4 with the built-in expression pot on the side. That was super easy and works well. It was a very pedal oriented day for me, I guess.
Wow that is a big capacitor ! Right value capacitor, but you went totally overboard on the voltage rating. The circuit runs at 9V and you bought a capacitor rated for 630V. I suspect you had to ream out the holes a bit to get the leads to pass through. But you got it working, so . Congratulations, you're super .
I'm guessing the volt rating on that cap is pretty high? Unless I'm reading it wrong I think it's a 630v cap, which may be overkill for this build . Glad to hear it's working! Edit: @Wasnex is fast.
There’s too many numbers! I’m a simple caveman. These wired chicklets confuse and frighten me. And no, didn’t ream the holes at all, fit right in.
Just saying, you probably invested more than $79 worth of time in troubleshooting and this thread. I'd have just bought a new one and been done with it. But whatever it's worth to you, I guess. Grats on the fix.
Ahhh but the knowledge gained... INVALUABLE! Knowledge that can be used in future, to save time and money.
There's like a million different similar quotes, but Arthur Ashe is quoted as saying: "Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." Yeah, I could have bought a new one for $79... but I'm stuck in my house with nothing better to do than learning to fix, build, and modify stuff. This was WAY more fun! (Plus, the last thing I ordered from Sweetwater took over a month to get here, so... yeah.) Oh, and an aside: The 630v cap was $0.77, the 100v was $1.00, so if it works (and it does), I'm okay with that.
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