I have built this circuit a few times, and successfully.
This time around however, i decided to change the op amp and use the 4558D op amp.
While I was building it, I was paranoid about building the voltage divider part of the circuit, and so i tested it with a meter along the way. It was sending the correct voltage.
I built the entire circuit and the meter measurements from the negative terminal of my 9 volt battery, and the various pins, seemed to be okay. (I shorted pin 6 and 7) to disable the second part of the op amp.
But all of a sudden, without my changing anything, all of my measurements from all the pins on the op amp, shot up to over 8 volts. Even Pin 4 , which is suppossed to be ground, is over 8 volts.
How can this be? Even the point of the volktage divider where it should read half the voltage, is over 8 volts. See attached pics (my build, front and back and the schematic i am building from)
P.S. Here is the datasheet for the op amp. https://components101.com/ics/lm4558-dual-op-amp-pinout-datasheet
I did not know what to do with Pin 5. Was I supposed to send that to ground- is that what could have caused this?
Thanks for your time.
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How's your battery?
I think you may have some shorts in your board... try reflowing
Sounds like you may have lost your ground connection.
Thanks guys. Will check it out