Re: Gravity wave wiring

Posted by Marbles on Sep 06, 2019; 8:02am
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Gravity-wave-wiring-tp47277p47287.html

Hey!

Yes, I usually connect them by a snipped off bit of a resistor and let the wire go to lug 2. So: 1 wire from the board goes to lug 2 and there is a jumper between lugs 2 and 3.

There is more info on pots on this page:

http://beavisaudio.com/techpages/pots/

Not sure if it's applicable in this situation, but the following explanation is given:


But what happens if the potentiometer fails for some reason (age, poor quality, dirty, etc.)? If the wiper (which is the rotating part of the component and probably most prone to failure) shorts out, it will let the full amount of signal through. By attaching lug 1 to lug 2, we are building in a fail-safe. This ensures that the circuit is never completely open--there will always be some resistive path in case the wiper goes south.