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RE: [motm] VCF input jack question - switched ground or not?

2009-02-08 by John L Rice

Cool, I read it. I will clip out those offending jumpers tomorrow (right
after I fix my Oakley MultiMix I wired wrong! ;-)

John


-----Original Message-----
From: motm@yahoogroups.com [mailto:motm@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert
van der Kamp
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 1:12 AM
To: John L Rice; MOTM List
Subject: Re: [motm] VCF input jack question - switched ground or not?





On Feb 8, 2009, at 8:46 , John L Rice wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I've been wondering about this for a while but haven't gotten around  
> to
> asking. I have two MOTM-490 VCFs that were both purchased used. One  
> of them
> has the switch lug connected to ground as indicated in the copy of the
> manual I have (dated 07/25/02) but the other one looks like the
> switch-to-ground wire was originally installed but cut out at a  
> later date.
>
>
>
> And looking at my new MOTM-485,  (that I just got on Thursday,  
> thanks Paul!
> ;-), it doesn't have these switch-to-ground wires and the manual  
> doesn't
> indicate to use them.
>
>
>
> So . . . I'm wondering if it was found at some point to be more  
> advantageous
> to not have the unused inputs grounded and I missed the memo  
> (discussion ;-)
> cuz I'm new or ? ? ? ?


Hi John,

check out message #21402 in the Yahoo MOTM forum. That should explain  
it.

Cheers,
Robert


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