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Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Today's repair...

From: jesper <jesper@...>
Date: 2013-03-06

My experience is that when a cap fails it fails. There is no
temperamental about it. This sounds a lot more like a crappy IC getting
warmed and functional...

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electronically yours, jesper

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Nick Zampiello skrev 2013-03-06 00:31:
> there are caps on the card too that could be bad.
>
> i just recapped the power and connector plate on an SDSV and it looked
> like the caps were from the 1920's!
>
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> philmurr skrev 2013-03-03 20:11:
> > I'm very happy my IV is working, next up is the SDS-V...
>
> Speaking of which...
>
> Can the tech guys here enlighten me regarding the program selector
> switches? I _guess_ the four switches end up at the same IC which opens
> the selected path... My hihat card works great upon startup if I stay
> with the factory preset. If I choose anything else it turns weird.
> Sometimes it plays some odd form of mix of all the presets but mostly
> it's just a lame and dull sound coming out. The LEDs either light up all
> or none. After fiften minutes or so it works as it should. It might be a
> bad soldering joint since heat might help...
>
> I dug out the schematics and looking at that crappy copy it looks as if
> the IC2 (14556) might be the culprit. IC1 is a 4013 btw. Any input from
> you soldering guys?
>
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> electronically yours, jesper
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