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Subject: Re: many problems in a nice polysix... Heelpppp

From: "gil_we" <gil_we@yahoo.com>
Date: 2007-01-02

So now the only problem remaining is with the last G key ?
Did you check the diode related with that key in the keyboard
circuit ?




--- In PolySix@yahoogroups.com, "atuzzi" <antoniotuzzi@...> wrote:
>
> Hi polyfriends,
>
> I decided to help my brother to resurrect his p6...
>
> YEEEEEEkkkk: acid!
>
> Ok you know was completely blocked, everywhere, everything...
>
> action taken the OLDCROW procedure:
>
> 1) removed battery
> 2) removed ic30 and 31
> 3) checked continuity
> 4) recreated dead traces
> 5) new lythium battery with diode in place and no more c40
> 6) new socketed 74ls08 ic30 and ic31
>
>
> status:
>
> A) all digital control are ok (effect type, waveform, sub ecc ecc)
> B) all buttons of the programmer are ok
> C) I can see data changing on TP2 (I have no oscilloscope in place,
> but only a DM and a Logic probe (I'm not in my lab...))
> I can see minimal variation coming out from the comparator (lm393)
but
> after that, the data is going in the 8748 (T0 pin 1) and is Missing
in
> Action.
> I can see the inhibit working on the 2 4051, that should distribute
> the data on the buffers. But data at the output of the buffers is
all
> blocked (all maximum value seems)
>
> D) Key assigner problem:
> every time the p6 is turned on the note #56 (G in last octave) is on
> (GATE 0 is on). I need to switch the arpeggio on and off (or jump to
> unison and back to poly) to turn the note off.
> if an arpeggio is started, that #56 results always on.
> Is not a contact problem (I dismounted the keyboard). So seems
another
> IC problem: Does anybody knows the correct logic test to do to
> individuate the faulting IC ?
>
> E) As I have a couple of 8748 and a programmer is the .bin for the
p6
> available somewhere ? (I'd like to have a backup for the 2 p6)
>
>
> thank you for your help
>
> antonio
>