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[vintagesynthrepair] Re: [ComboOrgan] Simple oscillator circuit

2001-07-09 by Kevin Lightner

I know this sounds silly, but have you tested the Omni's coil to see 
if a winding broke?
That happens fairly regularly down by their solder posts.

Good luck either way.

K






>  I'm basically
>trying to create a new oscillator for my Arp Omni
>because the original oscillator circuit seems to be
>fried and I'd rather build something out of easily
>procured parts than move heaven and earth to replace
>the originals.  So far I've had luck producing a
>square wave when only the power supply of the Arp is
>hooked to my oscillator, but the moment I try to feed
>the output of the oscillator into the divider
>circuits, it shorts out or something and stops
>producing a wave.  I can only assume this is because
>it's expecting a 0 to -15 V wave (per the service
>manual) and is instead getting its positively charged
>counterpart...
>
>BaM
>
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-- 
Regards,
Kevin Lightner

http://www.sonicstate.com/synthfool

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