One encoder sounds very different than the rest, and doesn't work

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I’m going through the test steps of my new build, and one encoder (used for Layer) has a much sharper “click” sound (which I noticed while assembling), than the quiet, soft click of the others as they rotate. I’m getting no response on either rotation direction from it when in a synth layer, though clicking works. I’ve checked the connections, and the harness seems good, and both ends are well-seated.

Is there anything else I can do to test if the encoder is bad?

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Have you tried to connect an encoder that is working on another port? Just to make sure it’s not the cable or port.
I also have an encoder that does sound a little bit different than the others, but it’s working.

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Looks like a bent pin inside the connector on the board. Trying to delicately align it with a dental pick now…

Edit: Hallefuckinglujah. It was just coincidence that the loud encoder also was on the bad jack. I saw there was also a tiny fleabite on the channel in the plug that mated with the board connector, so I imagine there was a bit of flash or something that misdirected the pin on insertion. My own fault for not checking the connectors before plugging them in. Works now!

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Happy that it’s working now :+1:

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Aaah Excellent !! encoder probably consume about 25% of all my zynthian attention, and it can be really distracting ( lacking the back switch is one of the worst to fight) keep a mouse handy and turn on the cursor :smiley: )

So glad you tracked it down, which, of course, brings us to the inevitable… :face_with_monocle:

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“lacking the back switch” meaning power? Why would a synth have a power switch? I think the only synth I own with a power switch is my Eurorack case…

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My Mininova has one :stuck_out_tongue:

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I mean, I know there are a few, but . . . it’s definitely not normal. I think people complaining about that can’t have been in either the arduino/rpi world or the studio/electronic music world for long.

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All my synths have power buttons but that wasn’t what @wyleu was talking about. He was referring to the BACK button within the bottom left encoder which navigates back through the menu system.

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