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Fozzy The Bear:


--- Quote from: struby on April 01, 2007, 11:19:10 pm ---or i can make it all one loop from ground terminal 1 to ground terminal 2 through all the buttons, whichever works best for me, thanks
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You dont need to loop it back to anything...... Your ground doesn't have to be a loop.  Just feed the first button from the ground the feed the second button from the first, then third from the second etc etc.... the last button in the chain doesn't need to loop back to the ground terminal. In fact if you do do it that way, it makes it impossible to later find where any possible break in the cable has occoured.

If you just chain them, then you know where any break has happened because all buttons beyond that point will be dead.

As for your desire for symmetry and pretty cables..... WHY!!! nobody is ever going to see it apart from you. Who cares!! Any guest you have playing it won't give a damn what your cables look like, 99.9% of the time they won't want even see them.

Best Regards,
Julian (Fozzy The Bear)

struby:

haha well thanks everyone, but I'm not quite sure I followed, I just get it in my head that if one ground wire goes through more buttons than the other, that side will suffer performance, I have personal issues lol, but will either design be fine, one giant loop from terminal 1-2 or both loops going through that one middle button?

tommy:


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--- Quote from: struby on April 01, 2007, 11:19:10 pm ---





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hmmm, well this is clearly a searing indictment of the modern. a juxtaposition of ideals if you will. the red and the black, opposing forces of nature yet only together do they make the whole. a stand off of philosophies is evident, as is moral dilemma. a truly transcendental piece by Struby, whose work grows from strength to strength. klee and mondrian rolled into one!

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You're one crazy guy, aren't you?  ;D

n3m3s1s:

If you loop the wire back to ground after the last button it will make the circuit more resilient. If the wire breaks between 2 buttons you still get the ground to all the buttons on the loop - half from the start of the loop and half from loopback end.

As for making it impossible to tell where a break is with a loop I think Fozzy is a little off. For a button to stop working with a loop the wire must break either side of that button (or the switch must pack up) and so only that button would stop workng.

Also you could just disconnect the end of the loop for fault testing.

Just my 2p worth - please dont be angry with me Fozzy  :)

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