Noob 5E3 Grounding Questions

[rogzardo]

Hi,

After reading through forums I was going to try the grounding scheme in the photo here. I will have a PT lug and will attach to it the grounds from the Ground Switch, power cable, and pilot lamp. For the other stage I was going to run a bus wire along the back of the pots and connect the three grounds from the board and each pot.

Is that right?

Thanks.5e3 Grounding.pdf

[jmaf]

Never use a ground switch.

Use a 3 pin power socket and ground the chassis to mains ground, remove the ground switch altogether.

[Steve A.]

FWIW I have sometimes tried to incorporate star grounding schemes to classic Fender designs and ended up with more noise and other crap. Best advice I heard was to connect grounds of each preamp stage together.

As for a buswire across the pots that is the same idea as Fender using a brass plate under the pots and jacks.

I would experiment using jumper cables to see what grounding scheme works best for you.

Steve Ahola

[loudthud]

Follow the ground scheme in post 4 of this thread: http://music-electronics-forum.com/t12663/

That layout is for different power tubes so the wiring will need to be modified for 6V6s.