Question on repairing a broken VF1
2002-01-25 by lithergy
Several months ago my house got hit by lightning destroying all my PCs, lots of networking equipment, and phones. The only damaged piece of my music gear was my VF-1. The unit still powers on and operates properly, just it seems the AD converter was blown since it gets no audio input from the L+R inputs or the guitar input on the front. While I'm not absolutely positive the output works, it seems to my ears that some noise can be heard coming out the outputs that respond to parameter changes (and if it was just the DA converter, the digital out would probably be working). I opened the unit up and looked around for blown chips or if there were any noticeable marks from where lightning might have hit, also checked to make sure the inputs were still properly soldered to the unit - and everything looked perfect. Anyone have any idea what the costs might be to get the unit repaired? (insurance bought me another one and I still have the broken one and would like to have it repaired if the cost wasn't too high) Thanks, Brandon