Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Not sure if there is juice in the battery or not- I'll have to get an ohmmeter- I'm just 
getting started.

I'm surprised that the thing is soldered right onto the card- I would have thought 
Simmons would have made it easier to change.  Unless they expected the SDS7 to just be 
disposable...


--- In Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com, jesper <jesper@...> wrote:
>
> Rob skrev:
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, so I've plugged in that SDS7 I had since 1986, and it powers on etc 
> > but no sound comes
> > out. I pulled all the modules and the card with the battery and it looks 
> > like this:
> > 
> > 
http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=210159546/PictureID=4404152712/a=7
20 
> > 
<http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=210159546/PictureID=4404152712/a
=720>
> > 87350_72087350/t_=72087350
> > 
> > 
http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=210159546/PictureID=4404152713/t_=
72 
> > 
<http://www2.snapfish.com/slideshow/AlbumID=210159546/PictureID=4404152713/t_
=72>
> > 087350/a=72087350_72087350
> > 
> > Looks like some corrosion on the battery. So- Simmons made the battery 
> > permanent?
> > What is it?
> 
> Is there any juice left in the battery? Otherwise changing that would be 
> a start at least.
> If it's dead, the memory with sounds is gone, but you could always try 
> making a new patch from scratch. That ought to work without the 
> batteries - right guys? That should give an idea if something else is 
> broken. With a basic patch I think you should get sound from the 
> analogue part of the SDS-7 anyway since that shouldn't depend on the 
> battery.
> 
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