Build Your Own Clone Message Board

Scratch the existing diodes and wire three different combinations through a DPDT On-On-On toggle.

Won't be using the Easter-egg holes, as I'm burning my own board Hence, the schematic.

1. Can you confirm this would work? (C'mon, humour an old man)
2. What diodes, aside from the stock ones, would you recommend for the asymmetric part?


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Hmmmm. Maybe some nice, fat, N4001s or the like. How about two N4001s in series with a 1N34A across them in parallel

Cool, thanks ...

It's 2:30 a.m. and I can no longer see straight, so the rest of the offboard wiring is destined for the morrow.

Another quicky ... does it matter what LED's I use, and do they both need to be the same colour? (i.e. do different colours have different properties?)

I'm asking out of necessity, as I have low supplies (well, 3 actually)

I'm not sure it really matters. Some people say they can hear a difference between colors. To my ears, the reds sound a bit crucnhier than the yellows. You can always socket the spots so you can experiment

Thanks mantas ... personally, I'm rather 'anti-socket', so I'll experiment off-board and see what I like.

I'm putting the clipping on it's own mini-pcb ... (I have way too much spare time)

Actually that's what I do to. Almost all of my off-board components go on perf board

But there are some that might think spending an entire day, designing, a board, etching it, populating it (just for 3 clipping modes remember) and getting it in the box is a touch 'extreme'?

Naz wonders if investing in some perfboard might get him out of the house more often?

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