Upside down TLO72 is it an issue

My brains on freeze and I can’t think.

I am trying to get my spin on the Twin Drummer , My “Fat Drums” working without success. I have noticed this mistake.

Sams Original.

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Mine with the the OPAMPS upside down

Will the above mistake cause the OP-Amp to malfunction.

I have tried bodging it but it does not work ( but may have killed the 72 now.

Cheers

Rob

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Yep it’s backwards. You could bodge it on a bit of stripboard to swap pins 2/3 and 5/6.
Nasty one, added to my PCB checklist.

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Shouldn’t kill the op amp though, the inputs will have the wrong voltages but not outside the supply range, so not damaging.

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Item two:

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I already built a strip-board adaptor and the circuit still does not work but perhaps the OA is dead.

So we are saying the circuit defo will not work in that orientation. Maybe I will try another OA on my strip adaptor.

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The whole board seems to be a Friday afternoon job. The components are on the wrong side ( someone may have mentioned that ), the front panel alignment top bottom is off so fould the rails. The footprints are wrong for the poly caps.

Hopefully once I have it working I can manage to correct just the PCB and not have to have more panels done also.

Rob

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Item five. :laughing: tiny

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