Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Korg Poly800/EX800 Users

I guess my first question is
the surface mount chips I see upon the atomic hawk and maybe the hawk,,,
are they attached prior to shippping?
then all the user does is ribbon connector, diode,resistor,chip holder?

Charles

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On Sun, 3/25/18, Michael Hawkins korgpolyex800@... [korgpolyex] <korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: Re: [korgpolyex] hawk-800 upgrade
To: korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com
Received: Sunday, March 25, 2018, 2:40 PM


 









Hi
Charles,
You can't
barge in here. So don't worry about that.

I am the
creator of the HAWK kits. If you need help. I am right here.
Or you can email support@....
It's difficult to know how
experienced someone is with a soldering iron, especially
desoldering. So removal of IC29 and the EPROM socket is
where some people go wrong.
If you have a desoldering
workstation then removing the EPROM socket and IC29 is a
piece of cake. And owning  a desoldering workstation
basically means, you know what you're doing. Using
desoldering wick and or a solder sucker makes the job a bit
more of a challenge. Unfortunately, it's the
inexperienced that only have desolvering wick or solder
sucker that usually get into trouble. Some people have also
had problems just soldering the HAWK board itself. This is
usually people that have soldered some wires before but have
never done PCB work. Cold joints are the most common. When
someone runs into trouble, the first thing I do is ask for a
photo of the HAWK board solder side and the solder side of
IC29 and the EPROM socket. Then I tell them to redo the
soldering on the whole and that usually clears the issues
up. I have very few problems though. The vast majority of 
HAWK installers have no problems at all.

But, I had to write my warnings on
the web site just to make sure that inexperienced people
understand what they're getting into. And that it is
entirely their responsibility if things go south.

I love
the Poly so much that I offer a ton of help when people need
it. It's just another charitable thing for me.

/Mike





On Sunday, March 25, 2018, 2:13:50
PM EDT, charleschop@... [korgpolyex]
<korgpolyex@yahoogroups.com> wrote:






 









sorry to just bardge in
and focus to my own needs but im thinking of installing
..well buying first..lol  a hawk 800 upgrade
. technically able and physically too  to
install.but would like to know there are some users
here who have done the upgradeand can rely on some
pointers if need be?nervousness surrounding the whole
thing  seems although with the instructions from the site
moderately relitivily simple .
have any users performed the upgrade on
here ,I know a few have to my belief because  posts ive
previousily read hit on few topics related..
was susscesfull and just as described
?
input nessesary
please...
thankscharles




















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