Greetings! This is place is awesome! I am currently working on a sammichSID and I have a few questions. I would like to continually post in this thread as I go. Just a heads up my electrical and soldering experience are zero, but that hasn't stopped me before.
1. I noticed ceramic capacitors have 4 holes. "EG: C7L & C7R" I chose to attach them to the PCB using the outer sets of holes. I accidentally filled some of the inner and outer holes but never bridged sets. Is that okay? Should I fill all 4 holes of each capacitor?
2. I bent some ceramic capacitors as I was building. Should replace them? LoL how do I check for errors on my part?
3. I soldered a 6 pin Common Bus resistor where the machine pin strip (6 pins as well) goes into C1R and C2R. It took 2 hours to get out, LMFAO but what's a good check to make sure I didn't ruin anything.
4. I swear I read somewhere if I wanted,mono in and out jacks, I would need to remove pins 2 and 5 from the jacks. Is that correct?
By the way I don't know how to use a multimeter LoL. I've just begun step 3 inserting rear jacks. I have this multi meter.
http://m.radioshack.com/radioshack/product/detail.do?itemId=4214667&categoryId=1092594&path=Home%7CHobby+%26+Do-It-Yourself%7CTest+%26+meter+equipment%7CMultimeters%7CRadioShack%26reg%3B+15-Range+Digital+Multimeter
Sorry for the long link.
Wilba wherever you are, bless you. You added a extra 6 pin common resistor. How'd you know??? O-o