Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

Hi chaps,

I did have the case of smoking capacitors on my Xrack,  
(impressive !!!)  but it still worked after this ...

Patrice.


Le 1 oct. 08 à 09:16, Berk Aarts a écrit :

> After the monitor went blank/black, did you still have sound??
> in other words was it possible to play on the pads and hear sound  
> from your
> outputs??
> if not, did the harddrive still turn??
> if not, 99% chance the powersupply went dead, a large capacitor??  
> was there
> any smoke??
>
> Berk
>
>> -- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
>> To: <simmons_drums@yahoogroups.com>
>> From: Rodn Siddall <rodsiddall@hotmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:32:19 +0000
>> Subject: [Simmons Drums] RE: SDX repair
>> Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>>
>>
>> Cheers chaps,
>>  unfortunately I'm in Sheffield, U.K. so the Stateside options are  
>> out
>> really.
>> It's the fully loaded version with large (for then) hard drive, 3  
>> snares,
>> 4 cymbals,
>> God knows how many toms (they're stored in cupboards all over the  
>> place)
>> and like
>> I said, originally, 3 bass drums.  I remember feeling I was just  
>> starting
>> to get on top
>> of the bugger... Songs had to be recorded in 2 parts because the  
>> Atari would
>> clog up
>> after 2.5-3 minutes with the amount of information the pads threw  
>> out, but
>> it freed
>> up tape channels, and we only had 8! - when it failed all the work  
>> I'd programmed
>>
>> with it ended up triggering an Alesis D4, losing all the subtlety...
>>
>> (as can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/mojopin95  if anyone is  
>> interested,
>> Ha)
>>
>> From what I remember it booted up OK, but then, after 30-60 seconds  
>> the
> monitor
>>
>> went blank (black) and a horrible whine ensued.
>> I switched it off and on again only to have the same thing happen,  
>> and about
>>
>> a fortnight later I confirmed it hadn't been a bad dream by  
>> repeating the
>> process.Not being a technical over achiever that pretty much had me  
>> stumped
>> and I
>> haven't trusted anyone enough to let them just rummage around  
>> inside the
>> thing.
>> I think my best bet is Patrice and buying the schematics, it would  
>> be a
>> good starting
>> point for the couple of people I trust with solder and amp  
>> meters,   & it
>> would be
>> great to have it back in the studio - even after all these years,...
>
>>
>> I'm not looking forward to ploughing through the manual again  
>> though :)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Rod.                       ...unless there's a U.K. based SDX  
>> boffin ???
>>
>>
>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
>>
>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>
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