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novation nova "laptop" synth

novation nova "laptop" synth

2009-05-26 by duncan

can anyone point me at schemos for the above-named? I've got one here that drags it's 5V supply down to about 2V & won't boot.
I'm going to peel it apart & look for anything obvious anyway, but a set of diagrams would make for a more confident probing.

the power supply is ok, though the wiring inside it was a bit scorched where the previous owner had left the thing running with the faulty synth attached; I have repaired all this & checked the synth with another psu besides.

duncan.

Re: novation nova "laptop" synth

2009-06-02 by duncan

BUMP

had the lid off for a look-see, seems the dc>dc converter under the discharge display device has failed. no schemos available, so I'm going to have to send it to PMS. this is somewhat galling as I am a broadcast engineer with 20-odd years of working on thing that cost 100s of times what this little synth did.

no-one got them? I've looked eveywhere, & novation/PMS won't let me see them.

duncan.
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>>can anyone point me at schemos for the above-named? I've got one here that drags it's 5V supply down to about 2V & won't boot.
> I'm going to peel it apart & look for anything obvious anyway, but a set of diagrams would make for a more confident probing.
> 
> the power supply is ok, though the wiring inside it was a bit scorched where the previous owner had left the thing running with the faulty synth attached; I have repaired all this & checked the synth with another psu besides.
> 
> duncan.
>

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