Ok, so I got the el cheapo stepper last week and put it in my zero. I've tried typing out the long version of the story a couple times but I kept losing my train of thought so I gave up each time. It was a bit of a pain with no pins attached. Keeping the small leads attached to the pot while soldering it to the board made for some interesting expletives. The output jack would not work right after I did it so I thought I screwed something up and spent an hour messing with it and using a lot more solder than I would like any one to see.
I had to mess with the jack to get the left channel to work so I had to quit before I played the hammer game.
Today, I sat down again to take a look at my zero and try to find a replacement output jack for it. That was much easier than expected so I ordered two just to make it worth the cost of shipping. So after last weeks frustrations I decided I'd hook it up and see if I might be able to fiddle with it when I'm not ready to pummel it to death and get it working. So I plug it in and whammo! It just works. Just like normal. No missing channel. wth...
It just figures, I spend the money on the part and it starts working fine. I hate Murphy.
Well, I can't be too ticked, I only spent about $10 on the replacement jacks w/shipping. Actually, I'm not ticked at all anymore. I can't believe this thing is a zero. I can't believe a volume pot can make so much of a difference. Definitely worth the $10 for the attenuator. I highly recommend anyone who has either modded their zero or is planning on it to swap out the crappy stock pot and throw one of the gigawork steppers in.
Now to fix the optical input and do something about that annoying switching relay. The clicking is drving me nuts.
