Friday, July 15, 2016

This post is the BOM

This post is going to detail the supplies that I bought for this build.

First, because I no longer have access to an electrical engineering lab, I needed to set up a soldering station for myself.

SOLDERING STATION
I was unsure about the soldering iron; I read somewhere that the preferred wattage is around 20. But the one I got is a good brand and has adjustable temperature settings so it's probably fine.

Next, I needed to order stuff for this specific build. This includes an enclosure, jacks, the footswitch, and the circuit components.

SHO BUILD
I choose all of the circuit components based on the schematic from Guitar FX Layouts. There's a section in the comments where Ivlark explains which capacitors to choose:

"For all my layouts I'd tend to use multilayer ceramic for anything up to 1nF (and so for all the pF values), polyester for 1nF to 1uF and anything above 1uF I'd use electrolytic or tantalum. So for these I'd use a polyester cap for the 100nF and electrolytic or tantalums for the 10uF and 47uF. As long as they fit physically into the board, then pretty much any manufacturer will be good."

I ended up getting a 15uF tantalum capacitor instead of 10uF because Mammoth was out, but it'll probably be fine.

Everything should be delivered tomorrow, so hopefully I'll get the opportunity to build the circuit on a breadboard and test it out.

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