Hi everyone.
Well my parts arrived (well most of them) and ive spent most the arvo putting my tubescreamer together. Ive done as much as i can but now I am a little comfused. Ive spent about an hour trying to work it out reading the 'data' page in the back of all my electronics catalogues and have learnt alot. Like how to read EIA coding on capacitors.
But its come to asking for help. I am assuming that when i asked for a package from Small Bear for the GGG tubescreamer he would have sent me all the right parts (though I already know he got a resister wrong - no biggy). But when it comes the allll the different types of capacitors Im abit stuck.
- I received at 0.022 instead of a 0.02 - i worked that out and put it in.
- I have 2 ceramic brown capacitors marked 47 +/- 5% 500V SM and have no idea what they are for, any ideas??
- I only got one capacitor marked 2F9224 - which im pretty sure is a 0.22uF and i needed 2.
- I have 2 blue rectangular prisms things marked 1uO JR 63V BC 0403370 and dont know wat they are for.
- i have the 2 1uF capacitors except they are 25volt instead of 50volt and the diagram at GGG doesnt show which way to put them round - so could someone have a look and let me know and will the 25V ones work?!
I guess problems just find me.. so any help would be appreciated..
Paul, I know you made this pedal. If you stuck to the schematic, it would be really helpful if yu had time if you could please take a photo of the top of the circuit board, so i can check mine against it.
The GGG links for this are:
http://generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/ts_lo_808.gif
http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/instru.../tscmr_inst.htm <-- has all the capacitor values and types.
Thanks alot for any help - i wanna get this thing working.
Ben
EDIT: I looked at the excel file Steve (from Small Bear) sent me and some things dont match up exactly with GGG, so i know to check for next time and also realise that yes everyone seems to have their own variation of the Tubescreamer.