tycobre octavia wiring help needed

[edad]

Hello,
Ive been getting back into this project and still have a big mental block on how to wire this one up.Im a large newbe,I can paint by numbers and want to learn more,but I need help!!.Can someone who has done this project please send me a drawing /or notes on how to wire in the 3pdt switch with dc, jack, 9volt and led.Im doing the neg ground version from guitar gadgets.I just need someone to tell me which wire goes where from board to switch. I have all available layouts and pictures from many sites,but still Im dumb stumped.i know this is a pain in the ass.Maybe some day Ill be able to return the favor.someone email me ok?  edadmartin@myway.co :icon_redface:m

[DeeBug]

It took me a while to figure it out too, and I'm sure I'm no more knowledgeable than you are.

Trust me, you'll figure it out if you keep at it.  Use the layouts from various projects at GGG.  You'll notice a pattern.  Compare the layouts which use DPDT switches with ones which have 3PDT.  Better still, some of the projects have TWO layouts for the same project, one with DPDT and one with 3PDT.  Compare them.  Now look again at the DPDT layout for the octavia.  You'll see the wiring is the same as that other project with DPDT.  Now look at the 3PDT layout for that same other project and simply find the correspondences and hook up your octavia accordingly.

Good luck!

[jeff g]

If someone can let me know how, I'll post an off board wiring diagram

Anyway, I just built the Octavia and had the same problem.   I finally found the drawing by searching the forum archives, but I can't remember where it was linked.

The wiring layout that I used (it works) with 3dpt, dc jack, battery and led is:

switch
top row L to R (1,2,3)
middle row L to R (4,5,6)
bottom row L to R (7,8,9)


top row:  jumper from 1 to 2; jumper from 3 to 8
middle:  4 to PCB ground; 5 to PCB input; 6 to output jack tip
bottom:  7 to flat side of LED (to resistor to dc jack to PCB V+); 8 to input jack tip and jumper to 3; 9 to PCB output

input jack: tip to switch 8; ring to battery neg.; sleeve to PCB ground

ouput jack: tip to switch 6; sleeve to PCB ground

dc jack (must be switching type with 3 poles): clockwise starting at big metal piece (pole 1, left side) - to PCB ground;  pole 2(top)  has two wires - one to the LED resistor and one to PCB V+; pole 3 (centre) - goes to battery +

If you sketch this out and post it, I can verify.

Hope this helps

[DeeBug]

Hi edad,

Here's a diagram I had drawn for the switch wiring which I thought I'd thrown out.

It shows what jeff g described as far as the switch is concerned.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/mcbn1234/Octaviaswitchwiring.jpg

Hope this helps!

DeeBug

[burnt fingers]

This is universal for all neg ground projects. 

http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/switch_lo_3pdt_tb_dcjack.gif

[edad]

burntfingers your diagrahm is different, you have 1 and 2 jumped.jeff has 2 and 3 jumped.the diagrahm i used 2-3 are jumped one isnt used .
I started this a year ago ,and after looking, I think I did the pnp version because I have a black wire from the dc jack to the board 9v-.Now I wonder ,there are electrolytics on the board and all the negative bands are: c-4 negative to the outside,c-8 negative to the outside,c-5 negative to the outside.c-6 plus to the out side is this correct?If Im doing pnp are there any other items that would be different on a npn layout? how about q1-2-3 what part numbers used I use there?

[hubble]

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