Figured I'd ask here as well...

[Heath]

...since this place is chock full of smarty-pants.

Regarding the Dan Armstrong Green Ringer
http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2010/12/dan-armstrong-green-ringer.html

I'm going to try wiring a toggle switch to select either Silicon or Germanium diodes.  I'm Swytchlexic, and the layout is a little weird in that the cathodes of both diodes go to the same hole, so I figured I'd run my thoughts past you folks.

Using a dpdt on/on swtich I'm wondering if the following would do the trick (pardon the crude graphic):



Thanks in advance :)

[Madferret]

Looks good to me, but alas I also suffer from the cruel mistress that is switchlexia ;)

[IvIark]

Yes that would be fine, you could just link 2 and 5 and take a single wire from the common lugs to the board but I think you'd probably do that anyway.

[Madferret]

This really helped me visualise what was happening inside a switch by the way, maybe one day I'll actually fully get my head around them.

[Heath]

Yeah, I hate that this stuff gives me the trouble it does  I'm a reasonably intelligent person, but electricity... sometimes I feel like I'm stuck in an Insane Clown Posse video (Fuckin JFETs, how do they work?)

Even so, I've found myself modding a layout to do something a bit different, or adding a switch, in this case, and I think "Hell, a little while back I'd be looking at that cross-eyed."  So when I try to talk to someone about this or that circuit and they look at me like a talking shoe, I realize I've learned quite a bit. :)