First Pedal Build Problems

[TheBassBoss]

No, I only wired it to use power from an adapter, there wasn't room for a battery.

Here are links to the pictures:
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[Woodsbass]

This looks like it is touching, is it?

 

[Woodsbass]

This.

 

[TheBassBoss]

Which part is touching?

 

[TheBassBoss]

Oh, yeah thats supposed to be the wire for the bypass, but it got so covered in solder it became a blob. I wired the switch so that from that picture, the right side would be "up" in the wiring diagram I used.

 

[rratajski]

None of those links work again...

No offense, but trash this and start from scratch. New switches...everything...
From the looks of the image Woodsbass linked, you have too many cold, dirty, blobby joints to count, man. You can leave wires long enough to flip your board over to debug, but when they're that long, you're askin' for trouble.

You may want to get some perfboard and just weave bare wire through and practice on soldering clean, small joints of solder before tackling this. Another option is a confidence booster from BYOC, which they provide for free with the purchase of a new order. Grab a "simple" kit from them to get your feet wet, then come back to this with new parts.

 

[Woodsbass]

None of those links work again...

No offense, but trash this and start from scratch. New switches...everything...
From the looks of the image Woodsbass linked, you have too many cold, dirty, blobby joints to count, man. You can leave wires long enough to flip your board over to debug, but when they're that long, you're askin' for trouble.

You may want to get some perfboard and just weave bare wire through and practice on soldering clean, small joints of solder before tackling this. Another option is a confidence booster from BYOC, which they provide for free with the purchase of a new order. Grab a "simple" kit from them to get your feet wet, then come back to this with new parts.

Great suggestions. Also, you can hook it up using a Breadboard (This is my favourite method) so that you can see how it sounds and works before you spend the money on a case and components. If you end up not liking it, you have the components to work with on another project!

 

[TheBassBoss]

Do you think I'd be able to keep any of the parts, maybe the enclosure?

 

[Woodsbass]

Do you think I'd be able to keep any of the parts, maybe the enclosure?

Yeah, just heat up the solder joint again and remove the parts. Everything should be fine (albeit, a little dirty) and you can use the enclosure again once you're ready to build the project for good.

 

[Razzmatazz]

Subscribed to this thread. I'm waiting for a kit from GGG and this will be my first build, I have zero experience.

 

[rratajski]

After you desolder the parts, you will 100% need to test each and every one since you talked about exposing them to heat for long periods of time; otherwise, you will run into similar problems again...

 

[TheBassBoss]

I guess I'll be getting a BYOC kit, but do you have to use a heat sink when soldering on a PCB? Do BYOC kits come with sockets for transistors and ICs? And is there anything else I should know if before I try a kit, so I don't end up ruining it?