[sdiy] looking for a weid antXque IC for a Farfisa organ

Antti PitkXmXki anpitkam at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 17 18:53:39 CEST 2006


Hello everybody,

I have an old Farfisa Professional combo organ. There were a few versions of 
it, and the model label on this unit says "PP/221". I think it's from the 
late sixties. I'd really love to fix it, since it has a nice psychedelic 
"Doors"-kinda sound and it looks great with its ganster-style 
reverse-coloured gray/white keys and cream-coloured case. One of the 
problems of the organ is that one of its frequency dividers that it uses for 
sound generation isn't working. I was planning to replace the two 
transistors that are used for the divider... Except that it has a weird part 
there which seems to have all the divider components (2 transistors, a few 
caps and resistors) inside (I compared the electronics of my organ to the 
schematics of another version of this organ (PP/222), which seems to have 
individual transistors and components for the dividers)! So I guess it's a 
really early weird frequency divider IC. The part is coloured red, has 5 
pins (or legs), and looks sort of like two transistors combined in a sort of 
a flat case. Hmm, it's difficult to describe it, I'll take a pic if anyone's 
interested. The part has the following text on it:

200 C 1408
(2) EG 6840
PA 745

The "2" on the second line is inside a circle.

Note: A red frequency divider chip was used in many 70's organs, which is 
called "SAJ 110" - this isn't that chip, in fact the divider part of my 
organ doesn't look like a chip at all.

If anyone here has ever heard of that part, or even has them, or has a 
broken-beyond-repair Farfisa Pro PP/221, or knows a great source for 
obsolete electronic parts, well, any help would be welcome!

Thanks in advance,
Antti Pitkämäki




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