[sdiy] tongue stuck to skipole @20v

[Ken Stone]

>Bert or Marc of synton suggested I run my fenix at 20v.. yeazzz that's
>right, 20v.  I was surprised.  I know 18v is max for a lot of ic's so I
>only barely pushed it over at 18.7v. Was fine.  Felt like I was taking a
>risk.  Anyway, guess you can run a fenix on 20v.

Fenix has, as far as I understand, regulators on each and every module, so
the chips never see the additional voltage. The chips would most likely be
on +/-15 just like most other synths.

>I do have a Gentle Electric P/V in the serge and I'm probably most worried
>about that having trouble with 15v.  Anyway the reason I'm considering
>this is that A, it might increase the signal levels slightly across the
>system and B, I wouldn't have to mess with a second power supply for the
>Driscoll that resides in this portable setup.

I run my Driscoll on +/-12 volts, +6 volts from the same supply as my Serge.

Ken

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