New Pedal Day (Kit build, finally finishing up)

[Alex Kenivel]

"But dad it sounds broken" my son tells me after I rattle the box.

4 days to get from foggy England to foggy California, an Angry Charlie clone from Fuzzdog UK. Literally no indication of what these little resistors are. Nothing is labeled and there aren't really instructions showing me what is what. As a first time pedal build I'm stumped right off the bat. I already had to separate the two pcbs as it looked like they sent me two connected together.

I found a handy resistor identifier/calculator but how am I supposed to know which one is r1, r8?

 

[James Freeman]

Do you have a multimeter?

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Do you have a multimeter?

I do.

Looking up color codes and figuring it out be reverse lookup. I'm a millenial.

Already found my 3 1M resistors!

 

[James Freeman]

Well, if you get bored playing with the color code calculator just measure the resistors.

edit:
btw, I love Crunch Box type circuits, Angry Charlie should sound awesome.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Well, if you get bored playing with the color code calculator just measure the resistors.

edit:
btw, I love Crunch Box type circuits, Angry Charlie should sound awesome.

So I've measured one that I didn't look up yet and it reads 1 ohm. There are no 1 ohm pieces listed in the schematic. What am I doing wrong?

 

[James Freeman]

If you have a mutimeter with manual range of resistance, you should select the lowest range that doesn't show overload reading.
You can (should) verify with the color code calculator to be sure the reading is accurate.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

So I've measured one that I didn't look up yet and it reads 1 ohm. There are no 1 ohm pieces listed in the schematic. What am I doing wrong?

Measure the 1m you have identified to make sure it's reading properly

 

[Cirrus]

So I've measured one that I didn't look up yet and it reads 1 ohm. There are no 1 ohm pieces listed in the schematic. What am I doing wrong?

Something.


What's the colour code on it?

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Also have you downloaded the build doc from his site?

 

[Cirrus]

Also have you downloaded the build doc from his site?

That is a very good question, would certainly explain some of the confusion.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Yes I downloaded the build doc. It shows nothing about what parts are what exactly and their website explains that it wants you to have to learn something so they're not just going to tell you what's what. They make you do it yourself. I didn't read that fine print before ordering and I probably wouldn't have ordered if I had noticed that in the first place.

Here's the resistor:

Here's what it reads:

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Parts list

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Maybe something's wrong with my multimeter. The ones I identified as 1M aren't even making the needle jump

 

[SillyOctpuss]

That's a 1k resistor. The PCB is labelled with R1, R2, C1, C2 etc so you just colour by numbers. If it was me I'd just buy a cheap digital multimeter, you should be able to get one for less than $20

 

[James Freeman]

The multimeter says X1K (in green) so that's a 1 * 1000 = 1k resistor.

Definitely get a better (digital) multimeter, it's an essential tool for a guitarists.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Gah, okay. An tool upgrade is in order

 

[paisleywookiee]

An Angry Charlie is a Crunchbox is a Guv’nor, more or less, right?

 

[Stone]

Guv’nor

Is something id like to see in future Firmware update

 

[SillyOctpuss]

An Angry Charlie is a Crunchbox is a Guv’nor, more or less, right?

Yeah it's basically a guvnor with some modified values and led clipping instead of silicon diodes. It gives it a bit more volume and headroom.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Got the resistors all sorted out thanks to a new digital multimeter (yeah but does it FE3L the same?) and populated the first row, waiting for the iron to heat up