Source Gone Haywire

[Colin Fraser]

On Aug 22,  8:09pm, Brendan Heading wrote:
> Subject: Re: Source Gone Haywire
> 
> >  The only sound it makes now is a short (three seconds) burst imediately
> >  after it's turned on. Then it peters out to a barely audiable signal.
> >  It was working fine before this started.
> >   Do you know what the problem is?
> 
> My ARP Quartet was doing something similar to this, and I opened it up and
> found that there were a couple of loose wires inside - due to this dirt cheap
> thing that Seil used for connecting ribbon cables between the circuit boards.
> It was like an ordinary IDC header, except you just plugged the bare wires
> into it!!! Aggh!!
> 
>

Ths Source is packed full of ribbon cable connections using idc headers and dil 
sockets.
My first step would be to open it up and clean *every* connection in there with 
a suitable contact cleaner.
If that doesn't work, cry.


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