Hi chaps,
I did have the case of smoking capacitors on my Xrack,
(impressive !!!) but it still worked after this ...
Patrice.
Le 1 oct. 08 à 09:16, Berk Aarts a écrit :
> After the monitor went blank/black, did you still have sound??
> in other words was it possible to play on the pads and hear sound
> from your
> outputs??
> if not, did the harddrive still turn??
> if not, 99% chance the powersupply went dead, a large capacitor??
> was there
> any smoke??
>
> Berk
>
>> -- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
>> To: <simmons_drums@yahoogroups.com>
>> From: Rodn Siddall <rodsiddall@...>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:32:19 +0000
>> Subject: [Simmons Drums] RE: SDX repair
>> Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>>
>>
>> Cheers chaps,
>> unfortunately I'm in Sheffield, U.K. so the Stateside options are
>> out
>> really.
>> It's the fully loaded version with large (for then) hard drive, 3
>> snares,
>> 4 cymbals,
>> God knows how many toms (they're stored in cupboards all over the
>> place)
>> and like
>> I said, originally, 3 bass drums. I remember feeling I was just
>> starting
>> to get on top
>> of the bugger... Songs had to be recorded in 2 parts because the
>> Atari would
>> clog up
>> after 2.5-3 minutes with the amount of information the pads threw
>> out, but
>> it freed
>> up tape channels, and we only had 8! - when it failed all the work
>> I'd programmed
>>
>> with it ended up triggering an Alesis D4, losing all the subtlety...
>>
>> (as can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/mojopin95 if anyone is
>> interested,
>> Ha)
>>
>> From what I remember it booted up OK, but then, after 30-60 seconds
>> the
> monitor
>>
>> went blank (black) and a horrible whine ensued.
>> I switched it off and on again only to have the same thing happen,
>> and about
>>
>> a fortnight later I confirmed it hadn't been a bad dream by
>> repeating the
>> process.Not being a technical over achiever that pretty much had me
>> stumped
>> and I
>> haven't trusted anyone enough to let them just rummage around
>> inside the
>> thing.
>> I think my best bet is Patrice and buying the schematics, it would
>> be a
>> good starting
>> point for the couple of people I trust with solder and amp
>> meters, & it
>> would be
>> great to have it back in the studio - even after all these years,...
>
>>
>> I'm not looking forward to ploughing through the manual again
>> though :)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Rod. ...unless there's a U.K. based SDX
>> boffin ???
>>
>>
>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
>>
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>>
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