Re: 2 Fried G210's in a single day :-(

audiomaker2000 wrote:

> For instance, I did not put the capacitor in the power line since
> my leads are more than 18" from the power supply (didn't have any
> handy), but I wrongly figured this was to somehow smooth out the
> voltage but might only loose a bit of performace without
> them...wrong... they are critical to the safety of the drive.

SAFETY? Hope you will elaborate for the benefits of the rest of the
dummies on the list.

> Another thing I learned from Mariss is that fuses between the DC
> supply and the drive act as resistors and increase the need for

this

> cap.

Hope someone can answer this. If a cap at the Gecko's mouth is a good
thing, so more will be better right? So let's put a capacitor more
than the 470uF at the Gecko's mouth? perhaps 2,000uF?

Thanks