millenium dc... no pulldown resistor?

[marrstians]

do i need to take out the pulldown resistor in order to get the right dc to ground?

[R.G.]

I'm confused. The obvious answer is "No, the pulldown resistor will make the Millenium Bypass work even where it would not otherwise."

But I think there must be more to your question.

Pulldown resistors are intended to pull any leakage of input or output capacitors to a 0V DC level with respect to the signal ground. That prevents pops that would otherwise occur when switching effects in and out.

The Millenium Bypass works by sensing whether its control input is completely open (resistance greater than about 50M or more to ground) as it would be when the effect is switched in and the control line is NOT connected to the effect output --or alternatively whether its control line is connected to ground by less than about 1M. In this case, the Millenium circuit turns the LED off.

The pulldown resistor on an effect can do both purposes - output pulldown anti-popping resistor, and also the pulldown to ground that the Millenium needs to work properly.

I can't think of a circumstance where removing an output resistor would make the Millenium Bypass work better, or get a more "right" DC to ground.

So I'm confused.

[marrstians]

the problem is that i couldn't get the mill to shut off.... so i was wondering if i needed to put a lower resistor to get the dc to ground needed for the mill..

[R.G.]

The problem is almost certainly that you have presumed the wrong pinout on your mosfet.

Second possibility is a damaged MOSFET, but I've never seen one fail shorted, which is what would have to be happening.

R.G.

[idlefaction]

or you're using a positive ground effect like a fuzz face or range master.  this gets tricky - it can be done using pullUP resistors to 0V instead of pullDOWN resistors to 9V but the end result is that you have a circuit with a working millenium bypass that CLICKS when you switch it :/

then again that's how i use my rangemaster