[sdiy] Resistors -- (was: prophet 600 weirdness)

[klosmon]

Good question, Michael:  what's the deal?
I can understand a resistor in a high-heat situation (power supply, etc)
eventually burning out & either changing value or becoming an open circuit;
 don't really understand a working resistor suddenly becoming a piece of wire.
Anybody?

~GMM

At 11:23 PM 9/15/2004 EDT, WeAreAs1 wrote:
>
>In a message dated 9/15/04 5:32:03 PM, klosmon at earthlink.net writes:
>
><< Come to think of it, I saw something similar once in a Pro-One -- one of
>the pull-down resistors on oscillator two decided to become a piece of wire.
>Will check it out -- thanks. >>
>
>What's the deal with resistors in Sequential stuff?  I once was brought a 
>Prophet 5 that had a very mysterious voice problem.  After days of 
>head-scratching, I traced the problem to an internally broken or open
resistor on one of the 
>VCO's.  The resistor wasn't visibly damaged, and it never needed to handle 
>any real current, nor was it really possible for it to take any physical
abuse, 
>considering its location.  How did it break?  
>
>Michael Bacich
>