Rhodes Chroma Polaris

I turned it on out of the box and almost all of the lights light and
nothing seems to respond.  Actually there are only 11 lights off.  the
volume light, fixed, glide, bend range, upper function, a,b,d,2,4,11.
 There seems to be no output but hiss.  Can anyone help?

  Christopher

mmmm

classical case of dead (broken) panel ribbons...

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--- In chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com, "jenna_pher" <jenna_pher@y...>
wrote:
> I turned it on out of the box and almost all of the lights light and
> nothing seems to respond.  Actually there are only 11 lights off. 
the
> volume light, fixed, glide, bend range, upper function,
a,b,d,2,4,11.

>  There seems to be no output but hiss.  Can anyone help?
> 
>   Christopher

> I turned it on out of the box and almost all
> of the lights light and nothing seems to respond.
> Actually there are only 11 lights off. ...

When you power it off (and then back on again), do you get the exact same 
panel indications (same lights on, same lights off) or does it seem somewhat 
random?

If the behaviour is a little different sometimes, then it could be the 
'reset level' adjustment ("DC OK Threshhold") on the power supply. 
Specifically, it could be a little low, causing the CPU to wake up before it 
should.  If this is the source of the problem, then it is something easy to 
address (and is covered in the Service Manual, ref: Section 6 - Adjustments 
and Checkout)  [The service manual is available in PDF form at 
http://www.rhodeschroma.com/?id=polaris ]