Vintage Synth Repair

Are you sure this not an April Fool's hoax ?! ;)

30$ each ?? for a P10 ? Trident ? JX10 ?

Sounds tooooo good to be true !

:))



--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "Roy J. Tellason"
<rtellason@...> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 08:04, Scott wrote:
> > --- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, "fsimon100" <fsimon001@>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I just joined. I found three nonworking synths and bought them for
> > > $30 each. A Prophet 10, Korg Trident mk II, and Roland Super JX 10.
> > > 1)The Prophet has some regulators in wrong. The 12v and 5V were
> > > backwards but the 12V should have been fixed voltage and had a
> > > varible regulator instead of fixed Vreg without feedback resistors.
> > > Hopefully that fixes that. There may have been some big voltage on
> > > the 5V circuit. I'm a little concerned because that reg open
loop may
> > > have been 37v. It lit up though while wrong just no sound.
> > > 2)The Korg had a memory battery leak on the board and fried some
> > > traces. So PCB repair and new battery may fix that. I like my
odds on
> > > this one. It lit up too but no sound.
> > > 3) The Roland has good Power supply but nothing lights up. The whole
> > > top LCD or LED plus all the buttons are out. I could appreciate
> > > advice or if anyone has a schematic would help. If I get one synth
> > > working I made a good purchase. I'm optimistic on the first two.
They
> > > light up and look like they want to work.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Frank
> > >
> > > I'll talk about my Hammond H-100 problems later.
> >
> > I have Hammond H-100 parts
> 
> I have a couple or three loose-leaf binders full of Hammond stuff I
haven't 
> even looked at yet.  What kinda parts do you have?  It's been so
long since I 
> did much work on Organs (probably stopped around 1985 or so) I don't
even 
> remember the H-100...
> 
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