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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Discharging capacitors in your synths

2014-04-09 by John Karns

A screw driver! If you want to avoid creating an arc, then just use a resistor of two hundred ohms or so.

On Apr 8, 2014 5:45 PM, <f115@rocketmail.com> wrote:

Hey everyone!

I'm just wondering what methods you use to properly dicharge the capacitance in a synth before you work on it. Thanks!

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