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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Discharging capacitors in your synths

2014-04-09 by Daniel Forró

Do you mean big capacitors used for filtering in PSU? There's no high  
voltage, and no danger of electric shock - at least in my experience.

Tube amplifiers, Hammond organ or old TV set are something different :-)

Daniel Forro


On 8 Apr, 2014, at 10:23 PM, <f115@...>  
<f115@...> wrote:

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> Hey everyone!
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> 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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