[sdiy] Advice?: Powering up a vintage keyboard after several years

[Barry Klein]

Well, that’s me....
If the consensus is just plug it in I’m good but if it is check the supplies first....  memorymoogs, prophet 5, lesser synths...  I’d just leave them off – don’t need the added grief right now.
No way am I going to tweak up the memorymoog supplies and go through calibration of them again... at least not now.
Maybe the Variac is just a thing for tube-based things like old ham sets or guitar amps?
I have 2 (transistor(ized) ham tranceivers and a Drake receiver that I need to try too.


Barry


From: Jason Proctor 
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:35 PM
To: David G Dixon 
Cc: Barry Klein ; synth-diy DIY 
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Advice?: Powering up a vintage keyboard after several years

have someone who knows what they're doing check at least the PSU first? 



On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:25 PM, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca> wrote:

  Plug that shit in!



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    From: Synth-diy [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Barry Klein
    Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:14 AM
    To: synth-diy DIY
    Subject: [sdiy] Advice?: Powering up a vintage keyboard after several years


    I am going through the stuff in my garage.  I have several vintage synths – some worth quite a bit now – and they haven’t been powered in at least 5 years.
    What would you recommend – advancing on a Variac, or just plug it in?
    Barry


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