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

[Adam Inglis]

I think Prophet 5 PSUs have a pretty bad reputation for taking out chips on the main boards when they fail, so maybe leave that one off until you can check it without the load.
> On 11 Oct 2016, at 11:19 PM, Barry Klein <barryklein at cox.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Barry
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> From: Jason Proctor <mailto:jason at redfish.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 6:35 PM
> To: David G Dixon <mailto:dixon at mail.ubc.ca>
> Cc: Barry Klein <mailto:barryklein at cox.net> ; synth-diy DIY <mailto:synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Advice?: Powering up a vintage keyboard after several years
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> have someone who knows what they're doing check at least the PSU first?
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> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 6:25 PM, David G Dixon <dixon at mail.ubc.ca <mailto: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 <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?
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>>> Barry
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