Hi All
Now as a heads up, I understand how the ground wires are meant to connect and have built quite a decent amount of working stompboxes. Just looking for new, easier or creative ways to ground my wires. Generally I have my LED cathode directly soldered to a jack sleeve and then to my 3PDT footswitch, from there all my other ground wires kind of connect from the DC jack in a kind of loop from part to part. Works for me but sometimes I feel like there might be a better way. Do my Switchcraft jacks ground to a painted enclosure for instance so they don't need to run back to the DC jack at any point?
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I connect the board, led, output jack and power jack ground wires to the input jack ground lug. If any pots are grounded I wire them to the board along with the other pot wires.
DC ground to board..
3pdt ground and another board ground to input jack...
no ground on out jack.. (i use bare metal boxes..) (i also put my on/off led/CLR on board too, with just a wire to 3pdt)
Like deadastronaut except on the last build the most convenient place to ground the input jack was to the ground lug of the nearby volume pot.
Add a battery and the arrangement changes.
>Do my Switchcraft jacks ground to a painted enclosure for instance so they don't need to run back to the DC jack at any point?
If the interior of the enclosure is unpainted, the jack will probably be grounded. I usually run ground wires to the jacks just to make sure they are well grounded.
Get a DMM with continuity check and never wonder again!