Emax

i've been having a problem with my display too. No whine, but occasionally it appears to offset all the information displayed in the screen to the left. Everything functions fine, but the words in the display become cutoff in the display.

I hadn't used my emax in a month or two and plugged it in again a few days ago. The backlight would light up, but i'd see nothing in the display. All functions worked fine, I was just flying blind. I opened up the emax and reseated all the multi-pin connectors I could get my hands on. This seemed to have fixed the display problem, and i've yet to experience the weird offset thing either. A similar thing happened on my oberheim synth, I lost a voice, and it turned out reseating the offending voice chip solved the problem.

Long story short, if you haven't tried it already plug and unplug the multipin connectors and see if that helps.

To: emax@yahoogroups.com
From: alan@...
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:39:34 +0000
Subject: [emax] Re: high pitched whine
















  


    
            Uh oh!

I tried the bits of cardboard wedged behind the LCD as suggested, following the 

instructions on the Emulatorarchive site. I even disconnected the LCD module first to 

ascertain that this was indeed the source of the whine. It was. Unfortunately, however, all 

that wedging various thicknesses of card behind the display to fix the problem only seem 

to have created another problem. Now the readout on the display is gobbledygook. 

Everything else is working okay but the display is simply indecipherable. I wondered 

whether the problem could be caused by the front part of the display being lifter away 

from the EL backlight?



If no one has any bright ideas for fixing this I'm just going to have to fit a new module. 

Anyone know a good source?

Cheers,

Alan



--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <rolands50@...> wrote:

>

> Hi Alan,

> 

> Sounds like (no pun intended!) the voltage inverter/drive for the LCD

> backlight, or the EL backlight itself.

> 

> You'll have to take the machine apart to get to it, but thankfully

> Emaxes are very easy to work on, since they're so simple inside.

> 

> If you're confident enough, you can try taking out the LCD display, to

> confirm that it's the source of the noise. If it is, a trick you can

> try is to wedge a small piece of carboard between the EL backlight and

> the LCD display, which can sometime work to eliminate the whine -

> which is actually a high-frequency vibration.

> 

> Cheers,

> 

> Mike.

> 

> --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "alancurrall" <alan@> wrote:

> >

> > Hi Emax Boffins,

> > Ever since a got my Emax it's produced a high pitch background noise

> > while it's on. This doesn't come through the audio outputs, so doesn't

> > effect its performance, but comes from the machine itself. It's not

> > very loud and sometimes I just mentally blank it out, but other times

> > it does get to me and is annoying.

> > 

> > Any one got any suggestions as to what it may be and how I might get

> > rid of it? I've put in a new power supply since getting the machine so

> > I don't think it's got anything to do with that.

> > 

> > Thanks for any advice,

> > Alan

> >

>




      

    
    
















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