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

[Tony K]

I'd be interested in that Drake communications receiver. Esp. if it's an R7-A ;) 

Just fixed my Kenwood R-600 and hooked up a long wire. Fun to here Gene Scott again , and the hams!

That 'trick' to turn on gradually makes sense and sounds like the advice given to resuscitate dormant electrolytics. Have to remember that one.

73's

> On Oct 11, 2016, at 9:19 AM, "Barry Klein" <barryklein at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 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
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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> 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?
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>> Barry
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