[sdiy] Any Korg DVP-1 owners ?

[Kenneth Elhardt]

Larry Hendry writes:
>>I am looking to purchase one of these old beasts from overseas and it has
the 100 VAC Japan AC supply.  I was wondering if the internal transformer
was multi-tap so the retrofit to the correct voltage might be easy.  Anyone
have one that could check?  So far Google has produced plenty of links, but
no concrete on-line information yet.<<

You are lucky that I happened to have my DVP-1 sitting around opened up for
about the past 7 years as it is not working.  I plugged it in and measured
the spare unused tap on the transformer and it is 102 volts.  The other one
that's being used on my unit is 123 volts.  So that should do it.

Note that at some point if I can't find somebody local I may be looking for
somebody to mail my eprom to so they can plug it into their DVP-1, and if it
doesn't work (I think it's lost some info over time) they can erase and
reprogram it (it's a common 27256).  That's if any DVP-1 owner can program
eproms.  I'll pay for inconvience.

Note also that somebody in Boston on the AH list is also selling a DVP-1.

-Elhardt