Hi everybody, I just finished building a MOTM 440 filter but am having some problems with it. I bought some polystyrene caps from a surplus place that didn't have any voltage rating on them like pauls does on his polystyrene caps (I also have a MOTM 440 built by him, loved it so much I needed another!). After powering it up and trying to use it there was no sound only what sounded like a quiet bleed through of the oscillator hooked up to it which the none of the controls had any effect on. I took it back to the bench and started trouble shooting and what I found was that some of the polystyrene caps were melted, I assume because they had too low a voltage rating (they are smaller than Pauls). What I want to know is if this could have damaged any of the ICs? I'm gonna see if I can find some more polystyrene caps with a higher voltage rating but I'd be surprised if the place has them :( Thanks a lot for any help :) Dave
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MOTM 440 problem
2008-08-26 by lexvortex
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