Re: Wiring LEDs
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:15 am
Well then. I guess that's that.ekwatts wrote: ↑Sat Jan 14, 2023 1:26 am So I wired up the LED. Initially, I'd just snipped the existing LED off and stripped the ends of the wires for the new one. As I was soldering the second wire, the positive wire snapped at the solder joint on the PCB.... I was NOT equipped to do a desolder job so I did what anyone in my position would do: just dived in anyway. I basically succeeded in fistfucking the solder connection to the board into infinity, and in my rush to finish up, I kind of managed to lay a big blob of solder ACROSS the positive AND negative holes on the PCB.
Job royally fucked, I thought I'd leave it there until I could find my solder sucker, but then I noticed I'd also managed to pull the negative wire for the power supply socket off the board too. I was a bit more careful with that one.
So, after galloping around like a fucking... idiot on the guts of a £300 pedal, I plugged it in.
The result is that the pedal itself still worked absolutely fine, but.. the LED doesn't work. I'm probably just going to leave it alone now...
Yeah, the LED has nothing to do with the rest of the circuit, in like 99% of cases, I'm sure there's some weird shit out there.
I've sort of forgotten how hard it can be to solder when you haven't done it much. It gets to be really routine and easy, I forgot how much I had to learn to get to this point. It takes patience, though, which it does get tedious and you want to rush it. I made mistakes on my recent RAT build due to how many damn joints I had to do, and started rushing towards the end with the wiring, resulting in having to redo some of the joints.
If you're getting frustrated and just want it done, put the iron down and take a break until your patience recharges. You'll come back to this in a week or so and get it done, I'm sure.