St_Genesius
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It's my fault. I take full responsibility. I suck. I know. So no need to tell me.
But I've just got to vent my frustration:
I sat down last night to wire my pedalboard with Lava Cables solderless cable kit(s). I borrowed a continuity tester from a buddy so that with each connection, I could test to make sure that I was getting signal between the tips and not shorting to ground. I'm trying to make everything very neat, so coming out of one pedal, I drop through a hole in the board, run a short distance and then back up another hole by the input of the next cable. Then, I cut the cable to roughly the right length (erring on the side of slightly too long), make the terminating connection, test it, plug in and move on.
Every connection checked out as I made it.
Yet, when I plugged in a guitar on one side and an amp on the other...nothing.
So I started at the end of the board and worked backwards. A couple of pedals in, I found two cables that each had one tip shorting to ground.
Because of the fairly tiny amount of cable sticking up through the board -- combiend with the fact that the holes are not big enough to pass an already assembled right angle tip -- it's fairly tricky work, but I eventually got both of those cables repaired...
...only to find that my jostling of the board in the interim had caused at least one other cable to fail.
Seriously, how is this easier than soldering?
But I've just got to vent my frustration:
I sat down last night to wire my pedalboard with Lava Cables solderless cable kit(s). I borrowed a continuity tester from a buddy so that with each connection, I could test to make sure that I was getting signal between the tips and not shorting to ground. I'm trying to make everything very neat, so coming out of one pedal, I drop through a hole in the board, run a short distance and then back up another hole by the input of the next cable. Then, I cut the cable to roughly the right length (erring on the side of slightly too long), make the terminating connection, test it, plug in and move on.
Every connection checked out as I made it.
Yet, when I plugged in a guitar on one side and an amp on the other...nothing.
So I started at the end of the board and worked backwards. A couple of pedals in, I found two cables that each had one tip shorting to ground.
Because of the fairly tiny amount of cable sticking up through the board -- combiend with the fact that the holes are not big enough to pass an already assembled right angle tip -- it's fairly tricky work, but I eventually got both of those cables repaired...
...only to find that my jostling of the board in the interim had caused at least one other cable to fail.
Seriously, how is this easier than soldering?
) kicked at my board while flailing/fumbling/tripping onto stage as we got ready to start the next set .... i was able to repair it on the spot before the set started becuase it is solderless ... 
