I KILLED MY SPACE STATION!! Boo Hoo!!!! HEEEEELLLLLPPPPPP!!!!!!

["mark francombe" <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

Why cant I keep my stupid hands off...?

 So I just killed my Digitech Space Station... Well It died under surgery...

Im not completely sure what blew, but it maybe the light sensitive resistor thing...

I have had a prob with it for a while, the buttons were stuck, and the pedal seemed to be less sensitive.. so I opened it up and figured out that the buttons could be fixed quite easily.. but when I saw the pedal... WHAT NO POT??? 
Nope... its got the strangest construction.
The pedal has an LED on it, that moves closer to a Light dependant resister (or what ever they are called) and a VERY strange one at that...(not at all like the ones you stick in circuit bent things.. or I do...!!)

I fixed the pedal problem by bending the led mounting closer.. (looked like it had moved).. I then... like an idiot, I start to think (dont think... Mark DONT THINK... Never wise...) I think... if I can connect a regular pot onto the resister, maybe I can do without the pedal (never use it, all my effects sit on a table) AND.. maybe insert a jack and send the connection a small voltage from an CV sequencer (on my modular or somewhere)... after a bit of poking with a Multimeter, to try to figure out what resistance the light dependant resistor is (failed) I try shoving in a resistor... hmm.. not exacly BANG, but... fizzle... and now the resister doesnt resist.. the pedal doesnt work... and Im fcked... Now I HAVE to get my mod to work, or.. Ive lown something else... like a chip... 

Here is a word for the wise:

Never try to circuit bend something that you actually WANT!!!!!

Im so sad... any electonics wizards on the list..? I would send it ANYWHERE to be fixed... 

Yours, feeling a bit silly

Christmas...? Humbug...


Mark



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