Cgs synth

You aren't running it on +/-15 isnstead of +15/0V are you? You have a
serious over-voltage problem if craters are appearing.

Ken

>Hi. I am trying to get my first Burst Gen going and running into some

problems. When I have

>have all the chips in the 4017 gets really hot and twice blew a crator in

the chip! I have

>checked the active parts Diodes , Transistors and they are fine. I have

soketed all the chips

>and tried different manufactures. When I remove the 4017 The clock works

and trigger

>through works. As soon as I put back in the 4017 the clock never makes it

to pin 14 of the

>4017 and it gets hot. I have checked the traces and for shorts etc.
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>Richard did metion to me to get all TI parts. I have a TI 4017 and I am

awaiting a TI 40106to

>see if that solves the problem. But from what he told me and what I have

read on the list it

>seemed that a chip mismatch would cause false triggering etc. But this

seems to be

>something else?
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>I have replace the LM358 with a TL072 and LT1013. No difference. Please help!
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>Thanks, Charles.
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