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Hi all! My Confidence Boost didn’t work so I followed all the tips of the sticky called:
Confidence Boost Building & Troubleshooting Tips

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Everything checks out ok EXCEPT with the voltage on the emitter of the transistor. I’m getting .08 volts where I should be getting “1 volt or so.”

I’ve tried resoldering just the e pad, no luck. Could the transistor be bad? What should I try next?

I solved it! After dinner and a show, I reviewed my work, again, and discovered a wiring error to the enclosed stereo out jack.

In my ignorance, I thought that as long as I correctly wired the sleeve, then which of the remaining two jack terminals didn’t matter for the tip wire. So today I learned that it does indeed matter!

Now I can go to bed tonight having learned how to populate a circuit board. How to desolder with solder wick. And, how to do some basic troubleshooting! I call that a good day!

So would I!

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