[sdiy] Prophet 10 on fritz again.

[Doug Terrebonne]

I would generally agree. The synth forums are full of people saying that you should go in and replace all the caps whenever someone reports a problem on older synths. The only ones I would be sure to replace is older tantalums which like to short out and large bulging electros in the PS.

Doug 
synthparts.com

On May 12, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:26 -0700, Steve Galle wrote:
> 
>> Also the recent thread regarding capacitors makes me think, m
>> aybe the next step is to recap the cpu board. Tedious task to
>> contemplate, but one that I suppose should probably be done
>> regardless...
> 
> ... and guaranteed to leave you with more faults than you began with!
> 
> Never, ever do this.  Randomly ripping out and replacing components just
> because someone on the Internet said somewhere that they *might* be
> faulty, maybe, is a bad idea.
> 
> Find the fault properly.  Fix the fault properly.
> 
> Gordon MM0YEQ
> 
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