[sdiy] question on JFETS in vco of MS series

[Dave Manley]

On 8/27/2011 9:02 AM, dan snazelle wrote:
> there is a JFET in the MS20 VCO which connects to the CV source...on the schematic it is called Q5
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> see here:
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> http://www.korganalogue.net/korgms/images/service/ms20/circ1.gif
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> the drain connects to ground and the source to a 10k resistor
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> the odd thing (from my understanding) is that the gate is connected to GROUND.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascode