Star grounding/ effects powering quesiton on large multieffects board

Started by sjaltenb, November 10, 2007, 10:01:08 AM

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sjaltenb

Ok im still workin on my PC type board. its coming along quite nicely, i almost all the effects mounted, still need to go back and perfect the holes for the 3 EQ units and figure out a way to mount the boards that dont have any holes to mount with...

Also, i need my two tube drivers.

Anyway- Im about to start working on all the grounding...and i know thats a semi complex thing, especially with the enclosure im dealing with.
So heres the pictures to help you get an idea of what im working on...and also a horribly drawn rather funny diagram of what i THINK is correct....

I would really prefer to be able to ground the switches directly to the board near the bottom so that i dont have to run wires up to the top, and i could keep it all nice and neat along the bottom.

anyway, I REALLY want some suggestions!!!!




Here is shown the Cincon power unit and the board I made to distribute the positives.....There is one of these on each side of the board


RedHouse

If the grounding for those switches is to run LED's for status indication, I would run a separate ground buss for them straight to your distibution board, use the star ground scheme for audio path grounds, might help relieve any noise in the audio path. That is how it's done in (high end) mixing boards, infact the LED indicators are usually run from their own regulator chip.

Very ambitous work there, good for you.