Thanks a million for this Ryan. It's super helpful. For an amp signal board would 2mm tracks and 2.5mm pads (1mm holes) be a reasonable choice, please?
2mm trace is really wide, you can for sure use a much smaller trace width, like 0.2 - 0.4mm. For the power traces, you can go wider depending on how much current your pedal consumes, use 0.6 - 0.8mm trace width and you are fine :) If you have room on your PCB then you can use wider traces :)
@@timrobertson100 ah that makes sense. You just have to figure out the maximum current, and choose the trace width based on that, plus some margin of course
Oh no! My boards arrive on Monday and I'll be building the first one and report back. I know jlcpcb spotted that the footprint I used with the pots did not have full plated through holes so they added them (and I swapped out the library on my files so now it's not an issue) to work around this, you might need to solder the top and bottom side of your pots. Quick and easy fix this round of troubleshooting
I'm kind of confused by what it means to 'solder the top and bottom side of your pots' do you just mean that I have to hit the pot legs with solder on either side of the pcb?@@TheToneGeek
Thanks a million for this Ryan. It's super helpful. For an amp signal board would 2mm tracks and 2.5mm pads (1mm holes) be a reasonable choice, please?
2mm trace is really wide, you can for sure use a much smaller trace width, like 0.2 - 0.4mm. For the power traces, you can go wider depending on how much current your pedal consumes, use 0.6 - 0.8mm trace width and you are fine :) If you have room on your PCB then you can use wider traces :)
Thanks
Sorry, I should have said it was a tube amp PCB, not a pedal. Similar to Ryan’s Fairfield County PCB.
@@timrobertson100 ah that makes sense. You just have to figure out the maximum current, and choose the trace width based on that, plus some margin of course
I printed this with jlcpcb, populated it with my parts and it doesn't work.... were you able to make a working pedal with this pcb?
Oh no! My boards arrive on Monday and I'll be building the first one and report back. I know jlcpcb spotted that the footprint I used with the pots did not have full plated through holes so they added them (and I swapped out the library on my files so now it's not an issue) to work around this, you might need to solder the top and bottom side of your pots. Quick and easy fix this round of troubleshooting
I built mine today and it worked just fine. I'd check to solder the top and bottom of the pot legs and see if that helps
sorry, just saw this now, I'll have to give this a try@@TheToneGeek
I'm kind of confused by what it means to 'solder the top and bottom side of your pots' do you just mean that I have to hit the pot legs with solder on either side of the pcb?@@TheToneGeek
@@EJ_Crough yes, exactly.