On 01 May 2013 at 15:30 gordonjcp <gordon@...> wrote:
tantalum capacitors in those tend to have failed long ago, although that's only
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Omni - the power supply has a design
flaw that causes components to die, and the sliders fall to bits :-/
Chris
>You've clearly never had the "pleasure" of dealing with an ARP Omni then. The
>
> DO NOT "RE-CAP" IT. You'll only give yourself even more faults. "Re-capping"
> equipment pretty much only ever makes things worse. Electrolytic capacitors
> just don't fail in equipment like this - about the only place you'll find
> genuinely faulty electrolytics is in very old (1930s-ish) equipment, and
> modern cheap crappy switched-mode power supplies. In something like 20-odd
> years of repairing electronic equipment I've found about a dozen electrolytics
> that were genuinely faulty, and only one of those in a synth - my own Polysix
> ;-)
>
> Now, disc ceramic capacitors, they're another story altogether...
>
tantalum capacitors in those tend to have failed long ago, although that's only
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Omni - the power supply has a design
flaw that causes components to die, and the sliders fall to bits :-/
Chris