Has anyone ever taken the time to write down how much current each board is drawing (on the + and – 15V rail) in a healthy cs80? Or how much overall current one should expect (again on 15v)? If anyone could also tell me what the resistance should be from the molex, it would help me tremendously!!!
Hi Martin & all!
Couple of notes from your forum manager here. First, I’ll try and take some measurements in a couple of weeks for this.
Second, I’ve been in massive crazy mode for the last few months but hope to have something resembling a life very soon. I was laid off a few months back and soon discovered there were no jobs for my work (ASIC design and verification) within commuting distance of my house. My wife and I were thinking of downsizing our house a bit anyway so we went into a whole process of simultaneously
Fixing up our house (about 10 years deferred maintenance and me putting holes in walls)
Getting an agent and setting up to sell house
Me taking some short technical classes in San José
Me signing up and starting an online extension program through UCI (Univ California Irvine)
Me dealing with EDD (California unemployment office)
Me taking many professional development and job search programs
Me spending hundreds of hours updating résumé and looking for jobs (in Southern California!!!)
Wife and I searching for new place to live near potential jobs and still commuting range to OC for family and wife’s choir.
Looking at many new houses in Northern San Diego county and spending untold hours analyzing commute times and nearby shopping and dozens of other parameters.
Me having some surgery (after lots of time looking into health insurance - which I have to pay all of now)
Finally, about 8 weeks ago, in a matter of a couple of days, we sold our old house, bought a new house, and I got a job! All great news but the last few weeks has been total insanity of packing, moving, unpacking, fixing stuff, working and learning new job, learning to hate traffic on new freeways, my Macbook Pro dying (eventually fixed for free - thank you American Express extra year warranty coverage!!!), and going nuts with the last few weeks of the two online classes I was taking and weeks behind on (one done 2 days ago and other have project and final this weekend).
Just a little going on so I haven’t done much in the CS80 world. I have one I need to finish a house call on in the Hollywood hills. Got it figured out and partly fixed on first visit but I didn’t have any $0.05 diodes with me!!! Other is massive overhaul and mod-additions that’s been at my house(s) for way too long but luckily very reasonable owner has been about as slammed as I’ve been so hasn’t been bad about the delays - and he has lots of other synths :)
Anyway, classes done this weekend (and only taking one class next quarter - starting mid January) and have two weeks off at end of the month (unfortunately, unpaid since I’m a contractor right now…). I plan to spend the two weeks sleeping a lot and finishing the unpacking which will clear out the area in my garage that will be my new synth workshop. So, barring unforeseen circumstances (hard to type that without breaking out into laughter) I’ll be back on synth stuff by New Year!
Sorry - that went on a bit long so I’ll stop now.
David (now in Vista, CA - even further away from most of the synth owners up in L.A.)
