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Joe3334
10-10-2017, 10:50 AM
Hi all

My DIY distortion pedal kit arrived today and I'm just wanting to know before I begin, does it matter what end of the resistor goes in each hole? Here's a picture that might help with my question. Its a 100k resistor and it goes where R3 is.

Cheers, Joe

Sonic Mountain
10-10-2017, 11:10 AM
From my very rudimentary electronics knowledge, no it doesn't matter as they don't have a polarity like a diode, they simply resist current flow. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

Dedman
10-10-2017, 02:18 PM
:p 22680

Simon Barden
10-10-2017, 04:27 PM
No, doesn't matter at all. As it's a DIY project, you might find it useful to install them in a standardised way e.g. all 'horizontal' resistors with the tolerance band to the right and all 'vertical' resistors with the tolerance band at the bottom, so that it makes it a bit easier to check the values in future if things aren't working as they should.

Rabbitz
13-10-2017, 06:09 AM
Wot Simon sed.

(It also looks more professional and neat).