SergeModular

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, k.gstettner@... wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently I have an old 4 panel system at restoration at Kevin Fortune in the US. (I'm from europe)
> Incorporated is a not too happy GE PEF module that Ken has trouble to tackle since there is no available schematics.
> As most of you veterans know, the PEF has potted submodules by Entle Electrics and was not an original Serge design.
> For me playing cello this module is really important so I try to do whatever is possible to help repairing it since to find a PEF panel for sale is really hard.
> If it's the pots then I'm out of luck anyway but to even know that for sure Ken would need a working unit as a reference.
> So I came up with the idea to ask around if a US serge owner would be so kind to have his panel shipped to Kevin for a few days (I'll happily pay for the shipping) so he can figure out what's happening.
>
> cheers
>
> Kaus
>

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, k.gstettner@... wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Currently I have an old 4 panel system at restoration at Kevin Fortune in the US. (I'm from europe)
> Incorporated is a not too happy GE PEF module that Ken has trouble to tackle since there is no available schematics.
> As most of you veterans know, the PEF has potted submodules by Entle Electrics and was not an original Serge design.
> For me playing cello this module is really important so I try to do whatever is possible to help repairing it since to find a PEF panel for sale is really hard.
> If it's the pots then I'm out of luck anyway but to even know that for sure Ken would need a working unit as a reference.
> So I came up with the idea to ask around if a US serge owner would be so kind to have his panel shipped to Kevin for a few days (I'll happily pay for the shipping) so he can figure out what's happening.
>
> cheers
>
> Kaus
>

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "wavemultiplier" <crash49@...> wrote:
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> How's that for a response!
>
> --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "cfravel" <cfravel@> wrote:
> >
> > Hey, Kaus, this is Carl Fravel, original founder and designer of the Gentle Electric PEF.
> >
> > I have a Gentle Electric page at www.gentleelectric.com. There's a link at the bottom to my personal website and blog. You or your tech can contact me via the form there, at http://www.fravel.net/contact-me/ I can probably provide schematics and some email assistance on repairs. There is a very good chance that the problem is not in the potted modules, there isn't anything especially fragile in them, unless most of the semiconductors got fried on the board anyway.
> >
> > Best of luck in getting it repaired. If you decide to abandon the attempt, please don't discard it, I would prefer to refurbish it at some point.
> >
> > Carl Frael
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, k.gstettner@ wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Currently I have an old 4 panel system at restoration at Kevin Fortune in the US. (I'm from europe)
> > > Incorporated is a not too happy GE PEF module that Ken has trouble to tackle since there is no available schematics.
> > > As most of you veterans know, the PEF has potted submodules by Entle Electrics and was not an original Serge design.
> > > For me playing cello this module is really important so I try to do whatever is possible to help repairing it since to find a PEF panel for sale is really hard.
> > > If it's the pots then I'm out of luck anyway but to even know that for sure Ken would need a working unit as a reference.
> > > So I came up with the idea to ask around if a US serge owner would be so kind to have his panel shipped to Kevin for a few days (I'll happily pay for the shipping) so he can figure out what's happening.
> > >
> > > cheers
> > >
> > > Kaus
> > >
> >
>

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "acousmatique" <acousmatique@...> wrote:
>
> Also remember that GE are not the only way to get pitch->CV into a synth. With my early Serge I use a PV-1 module with decent results. It has a complicated lineage... It was from the Moog Etherwave, and Dr. Moog gave Harry Bissell permission to do a PCB run of the circuit, and he released it as a project via Tom Gamble's EFM. If it helps, the manual is still online kind courtesy of Mathias Hermann:
>
> http://www.modular.fonik.de/files/EFMforum/orgEFMfiles/pv1_611.pdf.pdf
>
> Mind you, I am practically tone-deaf, and should probably not have any pitched modules anyway! But it seems to work. So if your GE PEF can't be revived, there is still hope.
>
> CJ
>
> --- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, k.gstettner@ wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently I have an old 4 panel system at restoration at Kevin Fortune in the US. (I'm from europe)
> > Incorporated is a not too happy GE PEF module that Ken has trouble to tackle since there is no available schematics.
> > As most of you veterans know, the PEF has potted submodules by Entle Electrics and was not an original Serge design.
> > For me playing cello this module is really important so I try to do whatever is possible to help repairing it since to find a PEF panel for sale is really hard.
> > If it's the pots then I'm out of luck anyway but to even know that for sure Ken would need a working unit as a reference.
> > So I came up with the idea to ask around if a US serge owner would be so kind to have his panel shipped to Kevin for a few days (I'll happily pay for the shipping) so he can figure out what's happening.
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > Kaus
> >
>