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Will do, I am in Berlin quiet often and have a serious Becks addiction! :D Thank you very much for those soldering tips, I need more of those, just soldering by myself doesn't help, but I am getting better and so far all my projects work and they still do! The CS PCB was the one with 'filled up' holes! I will send it to you. You guys both rock. I will do a sammichSID demo later this week, dedicate it and share! :thumbsup:

Ok, thank you! I've redone some of them and am listening to the presets now! Everything works and it has a very very clean sound, I like it and hope to have some good time patching some myself. I thought my soldering was ok, but I guess I was wrong.. that is very dissapointing and demotivating news. :sad: I was never trained and thought it myself over the years, always hoped practice made perfect. Thanks for all the help and thank you Wilba for the great service on the control surface pcb! (do you want me to send you the bad pcb back? I can get back to you on that through email if you want?)

Why did fixing the soldering on those caps solved my problem yesterday, I didn't touch anything else besides those two caps!? Anyway, here are the pictures, thanks for your quick response!!

They are all '0'! I fixed the problem yesterday, 'c9' and the big fat cap weren't soldered well. I resoldered them and all the voltagetests passed! Within the 5% margin you mention. As I continued assembling, I must have applied pressure or moved the big cap, because I didn't get any results testing the control surface. So I started over testing and the problem was again 'c9' and/or the big fat cap. I resoldered them again, but this time it was a lot harder and I had to heat it longer. Now it doesn't work! I am about to go out and buy a new big cap and replacement for C9, I don't know how to check if a cap is broken! It is frustrating to solve something for just 10 minutes and then be in an even worse situation. Is it wise to start replacing those parts now, or do you have any other suggestions?

I resoldered 'c9' and the big fat cap and now i passed all the tests! So this step is FIXED!! On to the next step, thanks and I hopefully check three times before I move on next time... EDIT: attached control surface pcb, nothing.. rechecked the base, we're back at square 1! How can I check if I damaged the big fat cap or 'c9, because I can't get it to work anymore!

Yes, it is! If necessary i can post pictures.

yes! I didn't know what direction was 'on', but the power switch measurements answered that! When 'off' no output at the middle legs of the powerswitch, when 'on' 12.7 as described above! Thanks for the quick reply.

Hello, I just finished the soldering part of the sammichSID kit, thanks to wilba for allready a lot of help, I received a replacement control surface pcb (my original had some cluttered holes!?) and the soldering part went great! I am at page 18 of the build guide, doing the first voltage tests. My power supply is a 12Vdc regulated. When I power my sammich base pcb, I measure nothing at none of the points in the guide's picture. I read through older topics, but couldn't solve it. My solder points all look good! My initial thought was a problem with the power supply, so I started with measuring J1: 12.7 Then the middle legs of the power switch: also 12.7 Nothing at J20 or J2. I tested the parts around the power supply and got the 12.7 across the JBP's top left and bottom right pin!? I tried a shunt and when I apply a shunt to both I do get power out of the regulators, but it's -1.98 ? (I have shunts in place for a 12V hi power display and but them in JM1 and JM0 and in JP in the horizontal position.) I am no expert and am still climbing a learning curve, thank you for any help!

I'm so excited!! :)