Pot Smoking.

janus · February 26, 2006, 01:02:10 PM

With a subject line like that I figure you'd have to check it out. I wanted to try a 100k pot on a silicon fuzzface I had built. I was very very tired and burnt on building for hours. I hooked the pot up completely wrong 2lug to the 330ohm 3lug to the POSITIVE battery wire and 1lug to ground. Got a sound and then the pot sparked and then caught on fire!! ha! man it really woke me up, took some frantic shaking to get the fire out. Just a friendly warning to pay attention to what you are doing.

take care,
Brian

Floyd Pepper · February 26, 2006, 01:25:44 PM

Just tired or were you smoking during the build?

Peter Snowberg · February 26, 2006, 01:26:29 PM

We've had a few "smoking pot" threads here before.

I remember the first time I miswired a pot and got a similar effect.

I think I've done it just twice (so far).

Harry · February 26, 2006, 01:27:40 PM

I've smoked a pot before (I swear I didn't inhale

). Not sure but I think it still worked after that.

janus · February 26, 2006, 01:35:14 PM

It was a really good pot. .

toneman · February 26, 2006, 02:36:23 PM

always have 2 check out a title like this

oops...no mojo there!!

smoking pots can be bad 4 your (stompbox)health.
just.....
don't inhale....!!

peace

Harry · February 26, 2006, 03:06:37 PM

Quotesmoking pots can be bad 4 your (stompbox)health.

Plus it can get damn expensive, if it starts to become a habit.

Sam · February 26, 2006, 03:50:02 PM

squidsquad · February 26, 2006, 08:23:05 PM

Uhhh...yeah.....'spensive! Ask my boss....an ounce a week.....for the luva PETE!!!!
Oh....THOSE pots.......

The Tone God · February 27, 2006, 12:36:12 AM

Somebody say something about pot ?

Andrew

Fp-www.Tonepad.com · February 27, 2006, 01:45:19 AM

I had a pot smoke once...

...It was the linear "slide" type. Power supply short circuit too. Didn't work aftwerwards.

DiyFreaque · February 27, 2006, 10:31:34 AM

LOL, this just happened to me *last night*. First time in a long time. I decided to something with VTL5C3/2's, and instead of fitting up a proper control circuit, I just put the LED's in series through a 50K pot and 1K resistor to ground.

What I was doing was working great, then stopped working. Oh, one of the pot wires slipped out of the breadboard. A bit distracted with what I was doing, I stuck it back in quickly, but, hmmm, still didn't work and now...OMG, the POT IS SMOKING. As I was diving for the power supply switch, I glanced at that wire I'd quickly stuck back in and realized I had stuck it into -15V. 15V ->LED->POT->-15V. As soon as I cranked that pot, it put 30V through the Vactrol LED's (and the pot) with no current limiting. Losing the pot wasn't so bad; it was the two Vactrol$ I fried that broke my heart.

Cheerio,
Scott

Peter Snowberg · February 27, 2006, 12:14:35 PM

Scott, if you carefully break the Vactrols open you can replace the LED part with a standard yellow LED. Higher brightness units will probably work a little better, but the super-efficient blinding bright LEDs will go too far I'm sure.

petemoore · February 27, 2006, 01:51:00 PM

Scott, if you carefully break the Vactrols open you can replace the LED part
This is good.

Paul Marossy · February 27, 2006, 02:00:50 PM

I smoked pot once. I think it was on one of those dreaded "Laurier's Handy Dandy Circuits" circuits...

puretube · February 27, 2006, 02:18:07 PM

don`t bogart that pot, my friend...

David · February 27, 2006, 03:04:27 PM

Quote from: Paul Marossy on February 27, 2006, 02:00:50 PM
I smoked pot once. I think it was on one of those dreaded "Laurier's Handy Dandy Circuits" circuits...

Well, if YOU had trouble with those circuits, then I don't feel so bad! I tried a good half dozen of them and couldn't get ANY to work!

DiyFreaque · February 27, 2006, 03:19:59 PM

Thanks, Pete(s),

Vactrol surgery was something that crossed my mind - the two VTL5C3/2's are segregated in their own little drawer awaiting the day. I figure a with a single LED and some creative light-proofing, I can make a nice single quad element vactrol out of them.

Cheers,
Scott

Paul Marossy · February 27, 2006, 04:23:35 PM

QuoteWell, if YOU had trouble with those circuits, then I don't feel so bad! I tried a good half dozen of them and couldn't get ANY to work!

Yeah, I wonder if he ever actually built any of the circuits on his site.

The Tone God · February 27, 2006, 04:46:49 PM

Quote from: Paul Marossy on February 27, 2006, 04:23:35 PM
Yeah, I wonder if he ever actually built any of the circuits on his site.

I have not built any of his stuff but I have helped a few debug his work. I have discovered numours errors in a number of circuits and PCB. As always you should go over anybody else's work.

Andrew

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