Vintage Synth Repair

I had one in storage with the same problem. I got lucky and just cleaned up
the leak and the most of the traces were intact. I just took a chance and it
turned out great. I also had to replace some switches which Peavey still had
at the time. It's the best controller I have ever used, it blows all the
others away.YMMV.

 

From: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne Griffin
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:17 AM
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Peavey DPM C8

 







I found mine from the dumpster of a local Catholic school discarded for this
very reason. 
Peavey was no help to me when this happened in 2007. I had wished they might
have some NOS motherboards that would just pop in. Anyways, I spent a night
under bright light and with some 22 gauge wire and put humpty back together
again. I consider this success to have been nothing more than luck- you're
right the damage can be extensive. 

Had some Hi res shots but they were claimed in a HD failure last year. 

Take your time and give it a try, it's a nice controller. I was just playing
my Xpander from it moments ago- brilliant.[w]

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, djbrow54 <davebr@...> wrote:


From: djbrow54 <davebr@...>
Subject: [vintagesynthrepair] Peavey DPM C8
To: vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 5:59 PM

Anyone have any service information on this controller? The NiCd leaked real
bad on the motherboard. I think there are probably several runs destroyed
but it's hard to trace since they are all short runs to vias. I'm assuming
I'll have to lift all the affected pins and wire them up off-PCB. I've never
seen a NiCd cause so much damage. It's destroyed runs on both the front and
back.

Schematics, diagnostics, PCB artwork ... anything?

Dave