Help IDing (kit?) phaser

Started by RickL, October 01, 2005, 11:47:56 PM

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RickL

I've come into possesion of an obviously homebuilt phaser. It appears to have been built from a kit but the board might have been etched by the builder.

It is bipolar (+/- 9 volt) powered, has 2 LM 324s, 2 741s, and 6 MPF 102s. It has speed and depth (or feedback?) pots, bias and gain trimmers and what appears to be two more sets of 3 pads for two more pots. One of the sets has two of the pads jumpered, otherwise there are no external connections to the pads. It uses a dpdt switch for non-true bypass with one side of the switch controlling a status LED. The LED and current limiting resistor are mounted on a small PCB. There are no markings of any sort on either the main PCB or the LED PCB.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Maybe an old PAiA kit or something by Craig Anderton?

I got it for next to nothing and all it required was a fresh set of batteries and a bit of tweaking of the trimmers to get it working. It still distorts a bit if I have the volume turned up all the way on my humbucker equipped test guitar but it seems to work okay with the volume turned down a bit.

Sorry, no way to post pictures.

Rick