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----- Original Message -----
From: "sevebc" <seve.bc@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Simmons prices and quality

Jesper:
>>"Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!" That's FOUR!!!

Stephen:
>Thanks for the prompt Jesper regarding the SDS6. It went for ?917.00
>£630.00 which suggests that wallets are well stocked in Germany. A
>new Ananlogue Solutions Oberkorn sequencer (without the worries of
>dry solder joints) is £599.00 including casing. My desire to collect
>Simmons equipment does not stretch to overpaying for equipment - but
>then perhaps I'm a skinflint. The relative scarsity of SDS6's within
>Europe certainly plays a part FWIW.

Does anyone know how many SDS-6´s where made ?
Mine is serialnumber 62.

I don´t think the oberkorn is really compareable to the SDS-6, mainly due to
the lack of visual confirmation.

Stephen:
>>>On another note has anyone any experience of changing the power
>>>supplies in any of the earlier SDS Simmons units?

>>"Lasse is your man",

>Lasse come home - joke smile plllease ......OK a BAD joke I admit.

Hehe.....

>I've missed Lasse's contributions. It's really a general enquiry as I
>noticed that the power supply in the SDS7 is silicon protected -
>though the PSU in my unit is gleaming (so it's bound to fail now I've
>said that). I was impressed with how servicable the SDS7 unit was
>when I stripped mine for a through cleaning adjustment of the
>selector unit and to replace the CMOS battery

I changed the main transformer on my SDS-V that I bought from the US. I used
an 80VA torodial transformer that should be relatively easy to source in the
UK. Also, don´t forget to change the main fuse.

Other parts are just standard 7815 and 7915 regulators, diodes and
capacitors.

I suspect the SDS-7 power supply is a bit more complicated than the SDS-V´s.

Best,

LJ a.k.a Lasse but my real name is Lars. Also, I´ve been known to call
myself Waveterm !

http://hem.spray.se/ppgwave/studiopics.html