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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