[sdiy] Korg SDD-3000 5 volt supply problems

[Tom Wiltshire]

+1 agree with Brian - that’s definitely a bit of luck.

Not only did you fix the problem, but you didn’t have to replace an expensive transformer to do it.

Cracked joints and traces are always a pain to find, and intermittent faults are dreadful since it seems like they’ve never there when you’re looking, and always there when you’re not, so well done.

T.

> On 18 Nov 2018, at 05:38, rsdio at audiobanshee.com wrote:
> 
> You should feel lucky, rather than silly.
> 
> Cracked solder joints and worse, cracked traces, can be the most difficult needles in haystacks. Every time I find one and it fixes the problem, I feel lucky that I could see that there was even something to be done. Of course, one solution is to just re-heat suspect solder joints, but that’s not always possible on a large board. Other times - like when some shipper drops an item from a significant height - the cracks go all the way through the PCB, and then they’re easy to find. But most cracks are hair-thin and nigh impossible to find.
> 
> Glad you got this thing resurrected!
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> On Nov 17, 2018, at 9:07 PM, Adam Inglis <21pointy at tpg.com.au> wrote:
>> Anyway, I feel a bit silly having gone through all this rigmarole when it was such a simple fix after all, but I really do appreciate everyone’s input
>> 
> 
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