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Summary of Contents for Zeppelin Design Labs QUAVERATO MIDI MOD
- Page 1 QUAVERATO MIDI MOD Assembly Instructions...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER ........18 © 2018 ZEPPELIN DESIGN LABS. NO PART OF THIS DOCUMENT MAY BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR. ZEPPELIN DESIGN LABS TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE OR HARM THAT MAY COME TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING THROUGH THEIR PRODUCTS. THE QUAVERATO SOFTWARE IS COVERED BY THE CREATIVE COMMONS SHARE-ALIKE/ATTRIBUTION/NON-COMMERCIAL LICENSE, WHICH MEANS YOU ARE FREE TO ADD OR BUILD UPON THE CIRCUIT IDEA AND THE SOFTWARE IN ANY WAY YOUR CREATIVITY ALLOWS, BUT ANY DERIVATIVES MUST BE SHARED USING THE SAME LICENSE. -
Page 3: What You Will Need
WHAT YOU WILL NEED Here’s everything you will need to upgrade your Quaverato with the MIDI mod kit. In this assembly manual, we are assuming: 1. you have a Quaverato Harmonic Tremolo pedal, as a kit underway, or already assembled and in-service;... -
Page 4: What's In The Box
WHAT’S IN THE BOX ”Table 1: Quaverato MIDI Mod Kit Bill of Materials”” (BOM) is a complete parts list of everything that should be present in your kit, followed by photos of each part. Carefully go through the kit, identifying every part. Compare them with the photos. - Page 5 Table 1: Quaverato MIDI Mod Kit Bill of Materials Part # Description Notes RS-80-32 Resistor, 220R RS-80-40 Resistor, 1K CP-30-18 Ceramic Capacitor 1uF DI-20-01 1N4007 General Purpose Diode IC-40-13 Optocoupler 6N138 DIP 8 HE-20-01 Header, Single Row, 4 Pins CB-06-10...
- Page 6 Figure 3: Component Values and Locations...
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Page 7: Populating The Printed Circuit Board
POPULATING THE PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD In assembling this kit, your work space should be well-lit, well-ventilated, and disposable; that is, don’t work on the nice dining room table! Work on a utility surface that you can burn, drill and scratch. A piece of ¼”... - Page 8 Let’s begin! 4. Resistors: The values of resistors are given by a series of colored stripes on their body. There are several tutorials online describing how to decode these stripes, but we will identify each resistor for you by simply naming the stripe colors, and giving you the value and the part number. Fortunately, there are only two resistors in this mod kit, so it shouldn’t be too difficult to tell them apart.
- Page 9 5. Capacitor (C1): This circuit only has one ceramic capacitor. It doesn’t matter which direction the capacitor is installed. Place the cap in its holes and bend the leads out on the back (5). 6. Diode (D1): The diode is installed standing up like the resistors, but it is polarized, meaning it matters which direction it is installed.
- Page 10 7. Solder all the leads of the resistors, capacitor, and diode (10). Use your flush cutters to snip off the leads at the solder joint (11,12). 8. Optocoupler (U1): The optocoupler is what we call an IC or integrated circuit chip. When soldering this IC, try to keep it from getting too hot.
- Page 11 b. The leads on this IC are too short to bend out to hold the chip in place. A good way to install this component is to tack in one pin from the top of the PCB and then turn the board over to solder the rest of the pins (15,16).
- Page 12 10. 4-Pin Header: The short pins go through the board; the long pins point up (20). Make sure the bottom of the header is flat against the circuit board. Tack one pin on the end of the row down with solder while you hold the header in from the top (21). Once one pin has been tacked on, you can solder the other pins in place (22).
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Page 13: The Chassis
THE CHASSIS If you are modding a complete Quaverato that is already in service, you will have to open it up first. If you are working on the Quaverato kit, your pedal is still in pieces; skip to 2. 1. Use your #2 Philips screwdriver to remove the two screws in either side of the pedal (1). Use your pliers to remove the two plastic nuts from the 1/4”... - Page 14 2. Cut out the paper drilling template by cutting around the solid line (5). Align the template to the front of the bottom half of the chassis (6). As you hold the template in place, hold it up to the light to align the holes in the chassis to the hole markings on the paper.
- Page 15 4. In this step we will drill a 1/4” (6 mm) hole in the chassis. For this process you need to be very careful. This is by far the most dangerous part of this whole operation. Use work gloves and safety goggles.
- Page 16 e. Level out the lip around the hole with a deburring tool or a large drill bit -- about 7/16” (12 mm) (14). Deburr the chassis on both sides of the hole to allow the jack and circuit board to sit flush against the inside of the chassis (15).
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Page 17: Updating The Software
UPDATING THE SOFTWARE Quaveratos shipped after November 16, 2018 should be loaded with the latest MIDI-enabled software, version 2.3.6 or higher. If you are modding an older unit, you will need to update the software. To verify the software version on your pedal, do the following: 1. -
Page 18: Putting It All Together
connected correctly then you should see a status bar indicating that the Quaverato is being programmed. 5. If you got the message that the flash was a success (the status bar should reach 100%), then unhook the ribbon cable from your Quaverato and continue with the next step. If you got any other message then consult the Help file by pressing the “?”... - Page 19 4. Slide the two parts of the chassis together by lining up the 1/4” jacks to the holes on the bottom chassis (7). While the chassis is still open, plug the other end of the 4-pin ribbon cable into the header on the Quaverato’s PCB (8).
- Page 20 MARK WITH CENTER PUNCH OR NAIL. DRILL 1/8" (3 mm) PILOT. STEP UP GRADUALLY TO FINAL HOLE SIZE. BE CAREFUL! USE DRILL PRESS IF POSSIBLE. ZEPPELIN DESIGN LABS QUAVERATO MIDI MOD SCALE:1:1 2950 N. WESTERN AVENUE REV. DATE DRILL TEMPLATE...