[sdiy] Teac Trivia

[John L Marshall]

Gene,

Not for sure, but I believe that most Teac's of that vintage use 60 Hz (50
Hz in the rest of the World)  synchronous motors. I still have a 2300S from
that era. I may have the manual. Your technique will work well.

Take care,
John


----- Original Message -----
From: Gene Stopp <gene at ixiacom.com>
To: diy <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 4:54 PM
Subject: [sdiy] Teac Trivia


> Hi DIY,
>
> Sometimes I get strange ideas... I want to do some tape flanging
experiments
> so I was wondering if anybody out there knows whether or not a Teac 2340
> reel-to-reel uses a crystal oscillator for the capstan motor, or the
> 60-cycle power line. Anybody got that page from the service manual? Mark
> Glinsky's page 404'd me when I tried it. If it's the power line I was
> thinking of building a little sine wave inverter with:
>
> a tuneable EXAR 2206
> some IRF HEXFETs
> a big 12v filament transmformer wired backwards
>
> Pretty goofy, huh. I should have all these parts laying around. At least I
> feel at home with you guys :)
>
> Best Regards,
>
> - Gene
>
>