feel free to post your reezafratzitz schem
When I came home, the hot, hot, hot mid-day sun had melted the remaining goop, the capacitors, the knobs, etc.
polarbearfx wrote:does goop destroy the circuits? Is there certain components that should never get goop on them? I realize why people goop but isn't there a better way? Meaning it just looks so messy, it just looks terrible. I just don't like buying gooped pedals. Couldn't they do something better to protect their ideas if that is their goal?
NOTHING can be protected absolutely. It is almost always simpler and makes better business sense to outrun the competition instead of trying to fence them out forever.
analogguru wrote:NOTHING can be protected absolutely. It is almost always simpler and makes better business sense to outrun the competition instead of trying to fence them out forever.
Normally those who have the skills to develop/invent a similar circuit have also the abilities to reverse engineer it. It´s only a question of motivation...
Gooping only protects against kids copying the stuff.
If money doesn´t play a role (in business competition) goop is the worst protection.
I reversed many complicated things in my life (e.g. when the manufacturer went bankrupt and there was no service or spare parts available anymore - that´s sad when the broken machine has a value of $ 3,000,000,--, money doesn´t play a role in such a case) but most of the time I only could learn how i will NOT do it in the future.
Most of the time a skilled engineer is faster by constructing new than by reversing, when he has a "catalog" what the unit should do.
analogguru
Reversing stompoxes is no challenge - I do this for relaxation purposes only - instead of television.
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