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Quoted from Alan_L:The little red varistor right above the square box in the back bottom of my friend's Star Trek exploded sometime in the past.
Dumb question: why is the machine still working, and exactly what does this thing do?
The manufacturer wired them to do this as a "special effect" on the Star Wars, something like the "scream" on Ghostbusters does.
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