The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by The_Doc » Sun Apr 18, 2021 7:14 am

That looks classy.

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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by laurie » Sun Apr 18, 2021 4:55 pm

I have a 3.2 second MP3 file... (80k) if someone has somewhere to put it I can email it.

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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by sclitheroe » Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:48 am

Awesome :)

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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by laurie » Mon Apr 19, 2021 10:06 pm

Main PCBs arrived today. Switch PCBs have an issue that I'm sorting out - will be about another week.

I'm quite pleased.
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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by laurie » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:23 pm

The prototype has been running continuously for one month with overvoltage supply and hot input. Design is now confirmed.
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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by laurie » Wed Apr 21, 2021 12:32 pm

Any manufacturing initiative can have challenges. One of the challenges encountered with the 32 OD is that the PCB supplier accidentally mixed up part of my order with another customer's. They are manufacturing another set of my switch PCBs and sending them... no big deal for us and the small quantity of the 32 OD, but if I was a commercial customer it would affect my product delivery time.

This is quite normal with a manufacturing business - there is no "fault" here (things just happen). Managing the supply-chain when you are doing this commercially takes a lot of time and effort.

FYI - the pic of the actual PCB looks weird because it was taken through thick plastic packaging.
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Post by laurie » Thu Apr 22, 2021 1:13 am

SmallBear order has arrived. Everything is here apart from the switch PCB.
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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by laurie » Sat Apr 24, 2021 11:27 am

Switch PCBs along with the 32 TB2 PCBs have been shipped. Will have them all next week.

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Re: The 32 OD Pure Germanium Overdrive pedal - design and build in words and pictures

Post by Pepe » Sat Apr 24, 2021 12:08 pm

Nice! Sometimes I have to wait for specific parts and then a project is delayed for weeks.
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