theehman wrote:analogguru wrote:
but if you open the shatterbox shown in the link you will find Ge-transistors inside, who build those ?
analogguru
Those pics aren't available anymore. Do you have them to post?
Currently I am reorganizing my picture collection. In the meantime you can have a look here:
http://filters.muziq.be/model/bartell/shatterbox
What you can see there is what I
define as version 1 (maybe version 1 and 2 are mixed up) and version 3 . The picture on the link is from version 1.
Version 1 had at least 2 germaniums (2N408) and seperate outputs. Version 1 had a horizontal mounted pcb.
In version 2 (using the same case as version 1) a different pcb was mounted vertically containing 3 transistors - 2 in TO-1 case and one (from GE I suppose) in a black TO-5 case.
The surrounding components leads me to suspect that it could be simply a Maestro FZ-1 clone.
Version 3 (now in a different case, the white one) indeed used 3 silicon transistors but they don´t appear to be 2N2222 (metal case) - the transistors appear to be made by Motorola and could be (maximum) PN2222 (plastic case).
But: version 3 doesn´t have seperate outputs.
And then we have another problem:
in the gut shots of version 3 you can see, that there is positive ground - the electrolytics are polarized too for positive ground so it´s not that the battery-clip is falsely wired in the wrong direction. This would require PNP-transistors, but the 2N2222 is a NPN transistor ?
questions, questions, questions.....
analogguru
There´s a sucker born every minute - and too many of them end up in the bootweak pedal biz.
