[sdiy] a little knowledge is a dangerous thing !

[Harry Bissell]

I was going to reply that you ~can~ check a capacitor with a multimeter (an electrolytic with an old-school VOM... by reversing the leads and watching the needle bounce back and forth as opposite polarity charges are applied) but
I guess this is NOT what the boze is actually spewing about :^)

I did not watch the entire video (yawn...)

Did he, by any chance... recommend discharging the main filter caps with a screwdriver ???    :^)

H^) harry




----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu>
To: synthdiy diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:48:38 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [sdiy] a little knowledge is a dangerous thing !

OMG.

I think I'm going to suggest that we use this as a final exam in our circuits and electronics classes. Make the students watch it, and give them a point of credit every time they flinch at the wrongness.

"I've pretty much narrowed it down to it being this capacitor that's bad. I should be getting a reading of 48 ohms, 47 ohms on it, and I'm getting nothing. "

- Aaron

On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:29 AM, dragons wrote:

> a link to this youtube video was posted on the Hammond Organ list, even though it is about someone's efforts to fix a fender amp. I does worry me that there seems to be a lot of mis information on the web.
> regards Peter B
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GF6Iu85lyk

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