#populating

Popped some soldiers into my Meroze save today

We are populating the sinking and stabilisation fund – Seth Terkper – Nsemkeka The economic advisor to President John Mahama, Seth Terkper, says the current administration is laying down long-term financial buffers to avoid a repeat of Ghana’s economic setbacks. The former Finance Minister disclosed that government is actively populating the sinking and stabilisation funds to prepare for future…

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Another build, JHS Morning Glory.

The three pin socket on the right is for the JFet, the other randomly stray ones are for the diode section, pretty sure it's the clipping section... Might experiment with it and do a diode swap switch, since I did a Symmetric/Asymmetric switch in another build (Marshall Shredmaster).

Edit:

These are just a few pictures of a completed board.

I usually populate the board in groups of parts in steps (links, sockets, resistors, diodes, caps, etc.).

Sometimes I do them all at once if it’s a smaller build. Larger builds I will try to take my time and will definitely do only one set of parts at a time, checking that I have put all parts in.

I haven’t had any experiences with parts blowing up on me, yet. I’m pretty sure I’ve burnt out a few LEDs and maybe a cap because I messed up or omitted another component.

I refrain from doing a lot of builds when I’m overly tired; I end up making mistakes and ruining builds.

Once I am done the build (soldering all components and double checking that everything is in order) I hook it up to my Test Box and test rig.