[sdiy] Re: [AH] EMS Synthi AKS capacitor count

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Hmm.  Big ol' heat sink on it.  Power amp IC?  

"RMC" <RMC at richardcraven.plus.com> wrote:
>> http://www.richardcraven.plus.com/EMS/whatisit.jpg
>>
>> That's a design bug.
>
>It's certainly odd. An optocoupler or something?
>
>> Think twice before disassembling the matrix. Its a real puzzle to get
>> it back together again.
>
>I guessed it might be. I read somewhere that it is possible with care to 
>service it, but I can also imagine a big "sproing" noise followed by shims 
>and clips and loadsof bits of phosphor-bronze strip littering the workbench 
>... I had best tread carefully.
>
>> Robin at EMS sells sevice manuals which are a quite a bit more useful than 
>> the Hinton pages. He is also very nice
>> and helpful.
>> Good luck dude!
>
>That's a very useful tip - looks like I had best get a manual off Robin. I 
>didn't know that so thankyou for your help and for the good luck wish too
>
>Cheers
>
>RMC, England
>
>

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