Elektron Musical Instruments

Hi

I stupidly used the wrong transformer in my SIDStation (all those ugly wallwarts look the 
bloody same). 
After opening up my SID there is a faint but ominous burnt smell. 
I emailed Elektron they said it is probably a burnt out regulator. Has anyone had a smilliar 
problem to this? Unfortunately my SIDStation is no longer under warranty so I am hoping it 
won't be too expensive.

Kin regards

D

The same thing happened to me - because the plugs for my Machinedrum
and Sidstation both look exactly the same. I'm going to look into
getting mine fixed locally, because the shipping cost to Sweden from
Australia and back are too prohibitive. Don't worry though - I emailed
Elektron and they said the Sid chip should be fine. :)

Unfortunately I haven't got it fixed yet, but I'd be interested to
hear how you go & how much it costs.

Cheers!
Rob.

On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 21:08:10 -0000, ofthicktum <electrodavid@...> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I stupidly used the wrong transformer in my SIDStation (all those ugly
> wallwarts look the 
> bloody same). 
> After opening up my SID there is a faint but ominous burnt smell. 
> I emailed Elektron they said it is probably a burnt out regulator. Has
> anyone had a smilliar 
> problem to this? Unfortunately my SIDStation is no longer under warranty so
> I am hoping it 
> won't be too expensive.
> 
> Kin regards
> 
> D
> 
> 
> 
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> Hi
>
> I stupidly used the wrong transformer in my SIDStation (all those ugly 
> wallwarts look the
> bloody same).
> After opening up my SID there is a faint but ominous burnt smell.
> I emailed Elektron they said it is probably a burnt out regulator. Has 
> anyone had a smilliar
> problem to this? Unfortunately my SIDStation is no longer under warranty 
> so I am hoping it
> won't be too expensive.
>

If it is just a regulator then they are pretty cheap themselves.  If you are 
not familiar with replacing components on a printed circuit board then pass 
it on to someone who has experience in this area.  *DO NOT* attempt to 
repair it yourself if you are not 100% sure you are capable of performing 
this.  If you do try and make a mess of it, it is highly unlikely that 
anyone else will take on the job to undo your "fix".

A professional repair should not cost too much assuming that is all it is.

> I stupidly used the wrong transformer in my SIDStation (all those ugly wallwarts look the 
> bloody same). 
> After opening up my SID there is a faint but ominous burnt smell. 
> I emailed Elektron they said it is probably a burnt out regulator. Has anyone had a smilliar 

Depends on what they mean by 'regulator'.. There are chips called 
'voltage regulators' that take in DC power (like 9V or so) and turn it 
into something clean and usable by the surrounding hardware -- like 5V. 
If that's all it is, the part is cheap.

What actually happened? Did it turn on and work for a while and then 
shut off? Did it never turn on at all? etc... What kind of adapter did 
you plug into it? Was is DC or AC, what voltage? And what is the voltage 
of the SID's standard adapter?

Mark

Le 09 mars 2005, à 02:06, Mark Rivera a écrit :

> Depends on what they mean by 'regulator'.. There are chips called
> 'voltage regulators' that take in DC power (like 9V or so) and turn it
> into something clean and usable by the surrounding hardware -- like 5V.
> If that's all it is, the part is cheap.

Ditto

> What actually happened? Did it turn on and work for a while and then
> shut off? Did it never turn on at all? etc... What kind of adapter did
> you plug into it? Was is DC or AC, what voltage? And what is the 
> voltage
> of the SID's standard adapter?

Ditto

I may add, beside the regulator, other parts may be burned like caps. 
Anyway, save if something expensive is carbonized (ICs, the CMOS SID) 
it's more a time consuming fault tracking job/desolder/resolder.

Denis =G)