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Unread 07-09-2010, 07:38
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Al Skierkiewicz Al Skierkiewicz is offline
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Re: reverse-voltage protection

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Originally Posted by kamocat View Post
To date, I have 3 Jaguars I use for physical mock-ups. They've all been fried by reversed voltage (either by me or by somebody else on the team).
A cheap fix for this is to use a sharpie when the Jag or Victor come out of the box and mark input and output with a large, unmistakable "+" sign and "IN" and "OUT".
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Last edited by Al Skierkiewicz : 07-09-2010 at 07:54.