You probably cleaned off some bad traces that were only conducting
through the oxidized corrosion stuff. Look for those traces and
replace them. Good luck!
On Dec 12, 2007 7:57 AM, scottboardway <scottboardway@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Any help would be more than greatly appreciated. I recently bought a
> non working Polysix figuring the obvious. I opened it up and removed
> the varta battery and cleaned any noticeable corrosion with isopropyl
> alc. 70%. I closed it up for now to play around with it for a bit.
> Nearly every key was dead but the two or three that did work allowed
> me to test things out. Aside from sounding scratchy and
> unpredictable i.e. random sounds, sporadic led changes, the sound
> responded to ALL knob movements. Every single one. I figured that
> maybe the battery damage wasnt that bad. So I opened it back up the
> following day to clean all key contacts, (now all keys work 100%),
> and picked up some 90% isopropyl and clean the board a little more.
> I fear I went wrong here as my next step was using a deoxit pen to
> further clean the battery area as well as spraying some contact
> cleaner on the panel boards underneath the front panel KLM-370. I
> was obviously trying to clean out the pots and figured that was the
> most effective way at getting at them. I closed it back up and it
> sounded perfect. Everything works except VCF and ADSR. The
> programmer even seems to work although I have yet to put a new
> battery in. Im wondering if I shorted something with either the
> deoxit or the contact cleaner and if so what? Or if it is just a bad
> traced that worked for a minute and now has gone bad? Again I would
> really appreciate any help. Ive scoured this group as well as
> analogue heaven, old crow's etc and can't find anyone with the same
> problem of just those two funcions not working.
>
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> PolySix "Digiest" Page: http://www.acc.umu.se/~amber/Poly6
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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