Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
- laurie
- Posts: 1647
- Joined: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:07 am
- Location: Canada
- SBZ: Multi Platinum
- Bossarea: Multi Platinum
Re: Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
Most of the mechanical stuff is done. Up to over 6 hours work now. What was I thinking?
Powered it up and tested. Bypass works fine, the LEDs do what they should, but there is no sound coming out when the effect is engaged. So now comes the actual difficult part...
The knobs I had in stock are for "D" shaft pots. The icky ones on the pedal below are all I have today. One day I'll swap them out.
. . .
Powered it up and tested. Bypass works fine, the LEDs do what they should, but there is no sound coming out when the effect is engaged. So now comes the actual difficult part...
The knobs I had in stock are for "D" shaft pots. The icky ones on the pedal below are all I have today. One day I'll swap them out.
. . .
Re: Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
This is sorcery man. If I did not know your background in building pedals ans such I'd say it's not the same board haha.
"People who are late are usually in a better mood than the people waiting for them to show up."
- Pepe
- Posts: 1685
- Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:19 pm
- Location: Germany
- SBZ: Multi Platinum
- Bossarea: Double Platinum
- Contact:
Re: Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
Okay, I assume that you're going to check the transistors in the next step. Some of them seem to have literally bathed in battery acid and I doubt that this prolonged their life.
- Pepe
- Posts: 1685
- Joined: Thu Aug 16, 2018 2:19 pm
- Location: Germany
- SBZ: Multi Platinum
- Bossarea: Double Platinum
- Contact:
Re: Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
Short question: did you check the potentiometers already? In some settings the NS-2 works as a heavy gate, maybe something is stuck to this position due to a failing potentiometer or solder joint.
- laurie
- Posts: 1647
- Joined: Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:07 am
- Location: Canada
- SBZ: Multi Platinum
- Bossarea: Multi Platinum
Re: Lest we forget - NEVER leave a battery in a Boss pedal for "years"
Pots are good. I removed them from their PCB, cleaned and tested them, then resoldered them to the board. Then tested continuity all the way back to the main board.
I think I will have missed a failed component on the main board... there were so many I had to replace already because the acid had eaten through the the joint between the component lead and the component body.
Or it will be a failed solder joint. Where the component lead goes through the PCB it forms a tiny "well" for the acid to pool. I've fixed a bunch of joints already where the acid ate through the component lead and it no longer made contact with the solder.