The Yamaha AN1x Synthesizer mailing list

>Well, let me ask a useful question: Too much electricity can kill
>your equipment, can not enough electricity kill your equipment too?
>Did your AN1x still worked after replacing the wall wart?
>
>--Tom

Yeah, it's continually worked fine since I got the correct transformer - but
here we're talking about one particular peice of gear.  I can't think of a
circuit which would be killed by low current levels (well, maybe some
special applications stuff).  Take a portable radio, for example.  From the
time you put batteries in it the current and voltage supply are diminishing.
You can play it until it distorts like mad and you can hardly hear it,
replace the batteries, and it's fine.

Look, we're mostly musicians here, not electronics techs.  If the power
supply of something craps out, find the "correct" replacement.

Here's a laugh:
When I grabbed the AN1x wall wart to look at it, it was warm, REALLY warm -
and the AN1x has been off since Sunday!!!  How can this be, you may ask?
Because due to design (apologies here Bruce and others), the stupid thing is
drawing current all of the time!  Transformers are like that, even when the
secondary coil has no load, the primary still has it's own internal
impedance and pulls current and costs money.  So, when the AN1x is off, it
really isn't completely off....

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