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REHOUSING Behringer BSY600 thread

Dazonbass

Dazonbass

Jan 26, 2011
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Toyohashi, Japan
#1
This is long overdue, but I wish to start this thread to get me motivated to get things underway. I will be posting photos as things go along, so it is a work in progress.

If anyone can contribute I will be happy. :)


To start I am ordering the enclosure. The one that I know the PCB board fits into is the:

Hammond 1550B

It will not fit into a 1590B as far as I know because it is 4mm shorter in width.

If you order this enclosure you need to cut the top corners off the PCB board, so if you do not feel like doing that, you had better order a bigger one.

Here is the link for those enclosures:
http://www.hammondmfg.com/1550.htm

okay, now I have to get motivated :hyper:
 
#6
I have a suggestion. With a bigger enclosure, there will be enough room for two switches. One to turn on/off the pedal and the other one could be for a momentary hold or on/off hold if you will. I'm interrested! I have subscribed.
 
#7
Razzmatazz said:
I have a suggestion. With a bigger enclosure, there will be enough room for two switches. One to turn on/off the pedal and the other one could be for a momentary hold or on/off hold if you will. I'm interrested! I have subscribed.
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Great I idea, I have an extra enclosure at home that is a little bigger (not sure of the make but it is the size as a MXR-M80) so can look into that when I get home.
 
#12
I've opened it and this how it looks. Also this is where my knowledge stops... Almost everything is trapped on that board. I made a circle where the actual on/off switch is located. So far, I have been playing with pedals and that's about it. Looking forward for your ideas.
 
#13
I was planning to replace that with a simple SPST non-latching footswitch. However, I am now considering running a second latching switch parallel with that so that there is a way to hold it without your foot being on it.

I previously took my pedal apart and removed all the sockets for the power and the cables. However, I then found that I needed it for a gig and didn't have time (or motivation) to put it back together. It was just as easy to by a second pedal; I love how cheap these are. So with the first one that is half dismantled I will be trying Razzmatazz's idea of two footswitches. I also removed the jacks because I wanted to make them top mount, so I will do that as well. First thing I have to check is if that board works when I rewire all the sockets. Fingers crossed.

The second pedal I want to keep simple and put it straight into an hammond 1550B with only one footswitch. I found it difficult to remove the sockets due to my soldering iron not heating the solder enough. Therefore I would say that it is better to not remove them and cut the walls of the enclosure similar to how you see things done on a Proton. The disadvantage to this is that it won't be water tight (beer proof).

Will get some pictures up tomorrow showing some details about the 1550B and how I clipped the edges.
 
#17
Dazonbass said:
I found it difficult to remove the sockets due to my soldering iron not heating the solder enough. Therefore I would say that it is better to not remove them and cut the walls of the enclosure similar to how you see things done on a Proton.
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To be sure I understand this... if one's soldering iron isn't hot enough to melt solder, the better solution isn't to get a soldering iron which does get hot enough to melt solder?
 
#19
Yeah, it does suck that the mode knob isn't detented. The light blinks each time you change a mode, so I just keep track of how many blinks when I'm turning it. I mostly only use two modes (5 and 9), so I always know that they are 4 blinks away from each other.

I love the BSY, I'm buying a second one so that I can have one on each of my two boards. I'm sick of having to move it between the two boards all the time.
 
#20
Explorer said:
To be sure I understand this... if one's soldering iron isn't hot enough to melt solder, the better solution isn't to get a soldering iron which does get hot enough to melt solder?
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point taken, I will admit it probably is worth having a better soldering iron.

However, I am not a professional nor am I saying this is a rule book; just doing it my way and hoping it helps others.

I am actually happy with all the input so far, please do point out an errors I maybe making.
 

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