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. :icon_eek:
take care,
Brian
Just tired or were you smoking during the build? :)
We've had a few "smoking pot" threads here before.
I remember the first time I miswired a pot and got a similar effect. :icon_redface:
I think I've done it just twice (so far).
I've smoked a pot before (I swear I didn't inhale :-X). Not sure but I think it still worked after that.
It was a really good pot. . :icon_razz:
always have 2 check out a title like this :o
oops...no mojo there!! ::)
smoking pots can be bad 4 your (stompbox)health.
just.....
don't inhale....!! :icon_lol:
peace
Quotesmoking pots can be bad 4 your (stompbox)health.
Plus it can get damn expensive, if it starts to become a habit.
;D
Uhhh...yeah.....'spensive! Ask my boss....an ounce a week.....for the luva PETE!!!!
Oh....THOSE pots.......
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/TheToneGod/ricky.jpg)
Somebody say something about pot ?
Andrew
I had a pot smoke once...
:icon_rolleyes: :icon_mrgreen:
...It was the linear "slide" type. Power supply short circuit too. Didn't work aftwerwards.
;)
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
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.
Scott, if you carefully break the Vactrols open you can replace the LED part
This is good.
I smoked pot once. I think it was on one of those dreaded "Laurier's Handy Dandy Circuits" circuits...
don`t bogart that pot, my friend...
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!
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
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. :icon_rolleyes:
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. :icon_rolleyes:
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
QuoteI have discovered numours errors in a number of circuits and PCB. As always you should go over anybody else's work.
Yep, that's good advice if you don't know for a fact that the circuit and/or layout works.
Pot is nothing these days... Futurlec...
I just had the experience of frying a pot!
I was putting together the "tube sound overdrive" and placed the NPN and PNP trannies around the wrong way. I also had the trim lugs around the wrong way! (that's what I get for not concentrating!). The 100k pot was turned up full and instantly lit up! I normally love the smell of burning things but this wasn't so good.....