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visserman
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 Posted - 01/21/2006 : 18:47:24
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| Are all of those transparent, or did Boss make any black ones as well? |
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visserman
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Posted - 01/22/2006 : 14:54:43
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Okay need to give you probably more information for people to understand where this thought comes from:
So far I have only seen the transparent momentory switches, they contain a small coilspring, and the led just indicates when the pedal is switched on/off. They are usually fitted on some of the first verion pedals which do contain holes in the batt. compartment [two or just one], and most of these pedals will have the silver screw, but this is not always the case.
I have a SD-1 which is cometically almost the same as some of the first version pedals, but the swich on this SD-1 is black.
The seller did mention he had problems with the switch, but had it repaired. The pedal now works fine, no problems with the switch whatsoever, but I am just wondering:
Did the seller have a pedal with a momentory switch, and felt like it did not work as it should, because the light on these pedals does NOT REMAIN ON ALL THE TIME, no they only blink when you switch the pedal on or off.
So could it be that people did put a new switch inside the pedal?. Not really sure, as the pedal looks very neat, inside I cannot spot a single trace of workmanship, like solerblobs, or any different wires, no, infact the pedal feels like noone has ever done any work on it, and if they have done, they did it very neatly.
Okay anyone any thoughts on this, or is it common to have a pedal with the two holes in batt. compartment and them having black screw and a black, "normal" switch?
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bossarea
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Posted - 01/22/2006 : 20:54:12
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As I understand it, the clear switch disappeared first. If we look at PH-1s, #7000 has a black switch but it's still got the momentary LED. I've seen the same thing on OD-1s but I don't know which serial number it had.
Just note that this is based on Ebay auction monitoring and with a little bad luck the pedals I looked at had been serviced. |
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visserman
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Posted - 01/23/2006 : 17:18:13
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Thanks Bossarea,
I looked for a long time at the switch of the SD-1, and the colour is ever so slight different than the average switch, however it could be dust, just need to check further.
Do have two OD-1's and one is with the momentary clear switch, the other one has the "normal" black one, although this pedal could also have been serviced. It is hard to tell really, but from what we know so far, momentory switches seem to be of clear, transparent colour.
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/23/2006 : 21:50:34
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I might add to this thread that my SP-1 with batch number 7600 has the clear switch, but does not have the momentary LED.
Perhaps some pedals lost the momentary LED before the clear switch, and some were the other way around... |
Edited by - Sunburst on 01/23/2006 22:01:59 |
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visserman
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Posted - 01/23/2006 : 22:31:33
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| Thanks Sunburst, so clear switch does not necessarily mean momentory switch. |
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 00:21:39
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Apparently not it seems. I always thought the momentary LED was the first one to go, but it seems like in some cases the momentary LED was still there after the clear switch was replaced.
Like many things with Boss, there are some inconsistency to details, and when in time permanent changes took place. |
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bossarea
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 10:29:15
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| My SP-1 #8200 should by normal measurements be made after Sunburst's but it has both momentary LED and clear switch. Strange. |
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 12:33:11
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| This is interesting. It would be interesting to know if other SP-1 earlier than #8200 has the momentary LED or not. |
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phostenix
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 15:20:50
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| Sunburst has all the wierd pedals that don't match the usual patterns. Why is that? |
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 16:01:21
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Well perhaps somehow they are drawn to me...
How can I check on this particular PCB board if a modification to the LED has been made? |
Edited by - Sunburst on 01/24/2006 17:11:11 |
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bossarea
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Posted - 01/24/2006 : 18:20:15
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| It should be easy enough to see if any solder points have been re-soldered or not. The schematic will tell you which components to change to modify it to continuous LED. Don't have it in front of me here but I think the component values was mentioned in the long CE-2 thread we had a while ago. |
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 07:55:04
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It seems like mine was modified to have a continous LED. Not that fun to find out from a collectors point of view, but with a some help from bossarea (thanks man!  ) it seems like it can be restored to the original specs fairly easy. |
Edited by - Sunburst on 01/25/2006 07:56:28 |
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visserman
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 14:40:40
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Does anyone of you have an SD-1 with a momentory switch??
Have a feeling this pedal did not have one from the start of its production line, but then as mentioned before, we can not be entirely sure about this.
Sunburst: the batchnumber of your SP -1, is it a stamped one or a stickered paperlabeled one?
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Sunburst
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 14:50:43
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| visserman, its a stamped one #7600 |
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visserman
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Posted - 01/25/2006 : 15:12:49
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Thanks Sunburst for your comment!
Bossarea: Your GE-6's, are their batchnumbers stamped or on a stickered paperlabel? Does any of your GE-6's have the momentory switch?
Have a feeling that we will only find momentory switches on stamped batchnumber pedals, some of those may come with a black-or clear switch. |
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colour momentory switch.
