intellijel
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I am trying to fix an old MXR phaser that has six BPF stagess each controlled by a VTL5C2 vactrol.
On two other MXR units I found broken vactrols (the led portion was dead) so I replaced them. Is it common for Vactrols to die?
On the unit I fixing right now I already replaced one vactrol but now I am finding there new problems with other stages in the circuit.
I assumed vactrols were really simple devices (just an LDR+LED) but is there some care/repcaution I should be taking with them? Obviously limiting the current into the LED but is it easy to break the LDR portion?
thanks!
Danjel
On two other MXR units I found broken vactrols (the led portion was dead) so I replaced them. Is it common for Vactrols to die?
On the unit I fixing right now I already replaced one vactrol but now I am finding there new problems with other stages in the circuit.
I assumed vactrols were really simple devices (just an LDR+LED) but is there some care/repcaution I should be taking with them? Obviously limiting the current into the LED but is it easy to break the LDR portion?
thanks!
Danjel