Help with ground.

Rattlehead · October 10, 2006, 10:29:05 PM

can someone please tell me where does the mono jack ground supposed to go in this picture:
http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/9489/oldschoolfuzzdcled3pdtqc8.jpg

tnx

oldrocker · October 10, 2006, 10:37:15 PM

The fastest and easy place for the ground wire would be to hook it to the ground on the stereo jack accross from it. (Green wire.) Or to the bottom strip on the vero board.

fixr1984 · October 10, 2006, 10:38:52 PM

For me I dont ground the jacks. They will groud out thru the enclosure.
That is assuming that you are using a metal box.
Other wise I just connect the "ring" terminals of each jack together.

Rattlehead · October 10, 2006, 10:46:19 PM

is it good now?
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/3185/oldschoolfuzzdcled3pdthc3.jpg

and is the whole thing it self wired correctly?

fixr1984 · October 10, 2006, 10:57:38 PM

I think the LED is set up wrong. You would have to flip
the + and - around. Here is a picture showing
another way to hook up the LED

Rattlehead · October 10, 2006, 11:04:45 PM

So you basically say that the LED needs to be on the positive side?
like that?:

http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3253/oldschoolfuzzdcled3pdtvs2.jpg

oldrocker · October 10, 2006, 11:09:23 PM

I would say just flip the LED so the plus side goes to the center lug of the switch and the neg side goes towards the jack. The resistor can be on the positive or negative side of the LED.

Rattlehead · October 10, 2006, 11:17:02 PM

tnx,you helped me a lot

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Help with ground.