How I Rack-mounted my Line 6 Pod Guitar Effects Processor

Step 7 The LEDs and 7-Segment display

The original Pod had used red LEDs and a red 7 segment display - for a bit of my own flavor, I used all green instead...

From the AutoCAD drawings, I had cut out a piece of breadboard to mount all the components on and the first thing I did was to solder the wires onto the new indicators. Each of these wires would eventually be soldered onto the appropriate place on the original PCB where I removed the original component...

When the back-side of the indicator breadboard was complete, I soldered on (directly to the PCB) wires for the push-button switch connections - after soldering each connection, I tacked down the wire with some hot glue to make sure it didn't shift.... (one note though - in the end, my connections for the push-buttons failed somewhere, so none of the push-buttons work - which is OK, because I control everything via MIDI anyhow... but if you want your buttons to work, use caution here!)

And then finally - the connections from the indicator breadboard was soldered onto the PCB... now that's starting to look like a mess of wires... At this point, I mounted the PCB in the rack frame to make it easier to work on...