Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

It could be a battery but that just stores patches AFAIK. Sometimes
soldering points gets dry and powering up after many years may crack them
altogether... My OSCar wasn't nice before I fixed such problems...

Start with the battery and the fuse and then dug deeper if it still isn't
its true self... Good luck!

electronically yours, jesper

----- Original Message -----
From: <mookinx@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 9:18 PM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] sds 9 not working


> Hi,
>
> I writing on behalf of a friend who has an SDS 9 kit.
> The Drums and controller have been stored in a loft for about 14
> years in a relativly dry enviroment. He recently took the drums out
> to see if they still worked but after hearing some distorted sounds
> the unit eventually made no sound at all. The circutboard appears to
> be OK with no signs of errosion.
> Could it be (not surpprisingly) that the internal battery is dead?
> The fact that it made some sounds which eventually died away makes us
> think that the small white disk(the battery?) is kaput. Or is it more
> likely to be somthing fatal like the circuitboard or ROM chips being
> damaged and we can't see where the damage is?
> Is it too much to hope that he could replace a component and have
> those wonderfull sounds back or is 14 years of storage just too much
> for the poor thing.
>
> I would be very greatfull for any feed back, even some abuse for
> having left the thing alone for so long. I haven't had much luck
> finding info about Simmons on the web.
>
> Cheers,
>
> mike
>
>
> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
> Simmons_Drums-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>
>
>