huh.. I tried that electrolytic 10 mf cap. works fine across unused line from the pic. but I started wondering what it might do to the waveform of the incoming pc. I put it accross the pic out, and it went from high/low pulsing to low pulsing. anotherwords the cap is too high. I recon I'm going to have to pull out the old cap box I salvaged some years back and try some various values. I recon its about time to re-stock on the salvaged caps, the goo inside is prolly starting to dry up on the old ones. man.. I sure hope I don't have to find a scope to do this with, that would be a pain in the rear.

gotta hammer away some more and try to find some solutions. I think I am going to replace the wires with twisted pair cat 5 and see what that does.