me: guitar pedal kits are such a scam, why should I pay 35 bucks for an enclosure and a handful of components
also me: has been meaning to order some enclosures and a bunch of components for literally months but never does because making a shopping list and plugging it all into an online shopping cart is too much work
... I was not going to pay $18 for slightly-too-large aluminum enclosures and I struck out in the footswitch/potentiometer/knob departments, but I should easily be able do a one-stop order of all of *those* online
@mayor Ok help me understand here, why would the polarity of the DC jack (I know pedals tend to be center-neg) affect the transistor used in the circuit? Got a schematic link to look at?
@touk will dig up the link when I get back to my desktop but my “still mostly only grasping overall shapes of things” understanding is that the polarity of the transistor’s emitter has to match the current flow from the power supply, and if you want to use it with a daisy chain power supply where everything else is center-negative, you can’t get away with swapping the +/- connections at the jack
@mayor Small Bear!! *checks email* I haven't been in touch with them since 2010 😯
@mayor I was into pedals for like, a year or two....
…made a larger-than-intended order from stompboxparts.com, which combined with parts and equipment acquired in dribs and drabs over the last several years finally sets me up with a proper Lego starter bucket for screwing around with this stuff