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Or a broken pad (if soldering)...  or intermittent solder short...  Or a broken wire, or if socketted chips, a bent lead (it happens, believe me) which was making contact but isn't now...  Come to think of it, if there was a weak solder joint even with sockets, just removing the chips and pushing in new ones could break the joint...  

Get a magnifying glass and inspect all of the joints...

Ed

Bob Weigel wrote:

David, were you soldering these 301's in or where they socketed?  First
question that comes to mind...did you get it inbackwards or wrong somehow of
course...  Not likely the divider would go bad.  Are rail voltages normal at
this point? -Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Shoemaker" <dgsaa@...>
To: <oldsynths@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 12:24 PM
Subject: [oldsynths] ARP Pro Soloist problems, part 2


> Hi everyone,
>
> Thanks for the help so far.
>
> I replaced several 301's in the ARP, and everything started working
> perfectly except for one preset (Fuzz Guitar I) and the vibrato
> circuit.   I identified that an additional 301 (the pulse/saw mixer)
> was the probable culprit, replaced that, and then the whole thing went
> dead!  Dead in a new way, though,  because now it doesn't even make the
> one low tone.
>
> I've traced the voltage to the following probable cause:  the octave
> divider chip(s).
>
> Does anyone think that this chip could have suddenly gone bad and
> caused a complete dead unit?  Or would there be different symptoms?
>
> My other thought is that my fiddling around with the boards broke loose
> a wire or something.
> This was really heartbreaking, because for about five minutes, I had a
> fully working unit!
>
> Please continue to help if you can--I'll be here all day!  ;-)
>
> David
>
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