Posted by
rocket88 on
Oct 25, 2016; 7:33am
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correct you should get more output form .7V forward voltage then .4V. can you post pics of the diodes? maybe of the build too. i still don't think it's a build error, unless the switch is the problem, which i don't think it is. if it works right in 2 positions but not in the other the only point that's different is where the diodes are soldered to the switch. since the wiring to the board is the same for all 3 positions. know what i mean?
as for lack of time, i've finally realized that the most valuable thing i have is time. i mean this in reference to everything. with all my courses i just don't have enough to do everything when i want to. i mean my gross anatomy course takes up like 3-4hrs a day, my class on how to examine patients and evaluate them takes up about 1hr a day (more the past couple cause of my practical today and written exam thursday), my kinesiology and biomechanics class takes up about 1-2hrs, applied physiology about 1hr, then i have 2 other course that are about 1-2hrs a day and require either conducting researcher, volunteer work, and participation with local medical groups, all not counting going to class and the anatomy lab. there simply isn't enough time in the day and eventually you break. like today, i can back to my apt after my practical order food, ate, then tried to just reset and watch a little tv, passed out for 5hrs and worst is that now can't go back to sleep, and have to get ready for class in less then 3hrs. so now i'm going to just stay up and continue reviewing so i don't fall behind, and hopefully tomorrow i can stay up long enough to pass out at a normal human hour and get up with enough sleep.
when it comes to selling pedals, the parts are nothing, it's the build time. i had someone want a phaser for 2/3 what i sell it for, which i politely turned down and explained that the time to build the effect is what makes it expensive, which at $200 i don't really find a hand built effect on stripboard expensive. i mean it's not automated, no premade pcb that some unskilled laborer just puts parts in and class it a day. no quick silk screen labels, since i acid etch and paint each pedal individually. funny that people think that everything should be cheap because it's just a pedal, i can grab a mass produced effect for like nothing. the funny thing is guy never responded back.
time is just way to way to valuable and undervalued. sorry for the rant, just had to get all that out. lol
btw, always good to work on getting better instruments by selling others. even though i have more then most, no where near as much as heath does, i'm so damn picky that i just either wait till i can get what i want that either sounds good to me, or get something that feels great in my hands and upgrade it to where i want it. the only time i've ever sold one of my instruments is when i traded my fender tele for my g&l asat. i literally picked up the g&l, played it, had the store hold it for me, went home to grab my tele to trade it that day. i'll get another one one of these days though, but damn that asat blew me away, and i am a massive g&l freak. lol