Re: Noisy Cricket MkII
Posted by Gabriel Nunes on Mar 12, 2014; 9:14am
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Noisy-Cricket-MkII-tp8503p8519.html
Bull's eye, induction!!
I was indeed shorting the output to ground, but in a strange way... the damn output jack was faulty!! I started touching every place with the meter to look for unintended grounding, and found that the tip and the sleeve of the output jack were making contact; this is not visible from the outsider so it must be inside, so jack went to garbage. Put in a new one and that's it: cricket rocking! Boxed up the thing and I'm done. Beautiful little amp.
Never would have thought the jack was faulty!
By the way, just for me to learn a bit more, what made you suspect I was grounding the output? The readings in the IC?
Thanks a lot mate,
Gabriel.
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/Noisy-Cricket-MkII-tp8503p8519.html
Bull's eye, induction!!
I was indeed shorting the output to ground, but in a strange way... the damn output jack was faulty!! I started touching every place with the meter to look for unintended grounding, and found that the tip and the sleeve of the output jack were making contact; this is not visible from the outsider so it must be inside, so jack went to garbage. Put in a new one and that's it: cricket rocking! Boxed up the thing and I'm done. Beautiful little amp.
Never would have thought the jack was faulty!
By the way, just for me to learn a bit more, what made you suspect I was grounding the output? The readings in the IC?
Thanks a lot mate,
Gabriel.
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