On Sat, 19 May 2007, Dave Bowman wrote:
> I know the mods are not directly related to this malfunction, but as the
> synth is not finally assembled (some screws yet to be tightened) I was
> wondering whether a loose board could be the culprit.
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having the synth partially assembled won't help this type of problem...
there's only one way to tell for sure if it's causing the problem.
> One more thing: I managed to have the synth open during one of these
> breakdowns and noticed that some of the diodes between DB2 to DB9
> emitted a reddish light. Is this normal?
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it's probably nothing to be concerned by. an LED is just a diode that's
been optimized to produce light... IIRC a "normal" diode may produce light
when forward biased, and may react to light when reverse biased.
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