[sdiy] Yamaha CS80

[David Hughes]

Hello,

Ingo Debus wrote:
 
> > Are you sure that's not just an admonition that the footpedals won't work
> > properly without being connected before power-on? It seems so odd that a
> > synth could be damaged or even work improperly if powered up without
> > footpedals connected.
> 
> It seems odd, but I have an old organ which indeed doesn't work without
> its volume pedal connected. The reason is, believe it or not, the mains
> transformer is in the pedal. I don't know if they did this to make the
> pedal heavier, or to keep the transformer as far away as possible from
> the reverb spring.

I've seen this before on a couple of Yammy synths, a CS70M, I think and one of
the smaller CS jobbies. Infinitely better than those bloody 'wall wart' PSU's.

Regards
   David

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