Can you fry a MoogerFooger by plugging the wrong CV to CV?

[moledog]

I’ve been playing around with my LP and MF102 and it occurred to me that I don’t really know what I’m doing!

I’ve been getting some great sounds, but I’m a bit concerned that I could damage either unit by plugging a CV cable into the wrong hole.

Will I fry my beloved Moogs by plugging things in “willy-nilly”, or can CV go to any other CV?

Is there any combination should I be careful of…?

Thanks

[Lux_Seeker]

I don’t see how you can fry a fooger by going wild with CVs between foogers. The CVs on foogers are designed to work within a certain range. All the CV outputs will be in that range so you can really fry anything by plugging fooger into fooger.

If you use an external voltage source, I would just make sure its within or close to the foogers range. For example, don’t plug AC current from your wall into the CV. That would fry the fooger and probably make it catch on fire. But as for fooger to fooger madness, go crazy.

[moledog]

Thanks for the reply…

So, it’s okay to plug a “CV out” into a “CV out” - I know this is a silly thing to do, but it won’t harm anything… will it?

[soundxplorer]

@moledog

So, it’s okay to plug a “CV out” into a “CV out” - I know this is a silly thing to do, but it won’t harm anything… will it?

I wouldn’t plug an OUT to an OUT. And if you accidentally did, well, I don’t know if it would cause damage or not.

Anyone else know for sure?

[CTRLSHFT]

@soundxplorer

@moledog

So, it’s okay to plug a “CV out” into a “CV out” - I know this is a silly thing to do, but it won’t harm anything… will it?

I wouldn’t plug an OUT to an OUT. And if you accidentally did, well, I don’t know if it would cause damage or not.

Anyone else know for sure?

for what it’s worth i’ve done this on accident a couple times w/ no problems, although i’d imagine it’s not a great idea to do.

[Lux_Seeker]

@CTRLSHFT

@soundxplorer

@moledog

So, it’s okay to plug a “CV out” into a “CV out” - I know this is a silly thing to do, but it won’t harm anything… will it?

I wouldn’t plug an OUT to an OUT. And if you accidentally did, well, I don’t know if it would cause damage or not.

Anyone else know for sure?

for what it’s worth i’ve done this on accident a couple times w/ no problems, although i’d imagine it’s not a great idea to do.

I guess it would be like connecting a battery or transfomer to the same. It may create some sort of short which in itself would probably not destroy the fooger but may create heat enough to harm the components. Some of the foogers like the freqbox have ICs.

Do we have any electronics experts here? I wish I was but that is not be. I understand the basis of circuts but if this would cause harm I don’t know. I could be good to know. Foogers are not cheap.

[Voltor07]

An out to an out can definitely cause harm if done regularly. In’s should go to outs ALWAYS to achieve new sounds. An out to an out won’t make new sounds, I don’t think.

[narrowcaster]

The other bad thing would be to combine two outputs into one input without attenuating. Some of the CV ins can be damaged if you put more than 5V into them. But if you always combine CVs using something like the CP-251 mixer, it will be OK.