Korg MS-20 power transformer question

Peter Snow psnow at magma.ca
Sat Sep 16 07:06:50 CEST 2000


Mine is a 115V only model so I don't know if this will help. There are only two primary
wires to the transformer and they are brown and black.

Cheers,

Peter

The Old Crow wrote:
> 
>   Hi folks,
> 
>   I've decided to rewire the AC line side of my MS-20 to use 115VAC as
> opposed to its stock 230VAC (unit was originally in Europe).  Looking at
> the transformer, I notice two extra, unused primary-tap wires that have
> been sealed up in heatshrink.
> 
>   Now, my other Korg gear uses this same style of primary taps to select
> the input voltage, so I figured this is also the case for the MS-20.  My
> question is, which two wire-colors are used for 115VAC?
> 
>   I could measure the winding resistance for each tap, but then I'd have
> to take the entire cabinet apart whereas I'm trying to get this done with
> just the right-side end cap removed.  Thought I'd ask to see if someone
> out there 1) has already done this and can tell me which wire colors, or
> 2) can take the right-side end cap off their 115V MS-20, look at the
> transformer and tell me what the connected wire colors are.  The service
> manual doesn't show this.
> 
> Crow
> 
> /**/



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