Still waiting for clear coat to cure on my TL1-TH, and too tired tonight to start on the frets, so I unpacked the Julius kit from Pedal Parts Australia. It's a bare-bones PCB kit of an Orange Squeezer compressor. It comes with a PCB and all components, but no enclosure, jacks, footswitch, or hookup wire. Well, OK, it does have a DC jack.
Plain sailing until I realised the supplied 47u cap is too wide to fit:
Fortunately I had a taller one.
Then I realised the supplied trimpot (to bias the JFET) was also too large:
I also happened to have a replacement that fits, so I was able to keep building:
But if I was building this from a kit without a good component stash this could have been more frustrating.
Got the board fully populated in a fraction of the time an equivalent stripboard build would take. Very relaxing
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