Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

replying to both emails in here more or less:


- cool about the battery..  yea that diode makes me nervous.. no idea 
where that would go..


- yes changing batteries once a year isn't the worst thing to do.. i'll 
probably be ok with it once i get Unisyn installed with DP3.. so I can 
actually send / receive sysex patches from it..  this way patches get 
saved with songs and dump backups can be sent / pulled any time..  i 
have the cartridge with a fresh battery so that's safe..  and the 16 
internal could be restored literally as needed when doing a session..  
so there's that :)     I have midiquest11 which is great, but doesn't 
run on OS9..  So unisyn will have to do for most things.


- i get it.. it could be risky.. but then i have a number of pieces of 
gear that the engineers left off power switches.  ART is especially 
notorious for that..  I will probably do a few things but I'm going to 
trust things like wall warts to handle the power surge since they are 
outside the gear..   basically things i especially prize or are 
exceptionally old like my Mirage and Akai S612..  The casio will get the 
treatment since for now I'm not going to mess with diodes personally 
unless I can find someone locally to help out with it..  things like my 
fender quad reverb i don't turn on like that..  that's very very old and 
something i don't use all that often anyway..


- do have items with sketchy / close to breaking buttons on things..  
like my digitech RDS delay.. it works still but the "joint" it pivots on 
is wearing out and it's "this close" to popping out..  are most of my 
buttons ok?  yes..  but the article spoke to me about this because i 
could relate to his point.


- so yea i see enough high end pros doing it to not be too worried and 
in reality most of the stuff I have is not really very valuable.. so 
it's not like i have racks of Moogs and such..  but yea as i said a few 
gems (to me) I might give a little extra love too just for good karma..


- yea i always turn down the audio for my speakers / mixer to avoid any 
popping sounds.. that seems to do the trick to prevent anything from 
being hurt turning on/of


Thanks! :)
Caleb




Gordonjcp gordon@... [CZsynth] wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:23:09AM -0400, Caleb Garner 
> caleb.garner@... [CZsynth] wrote:
> > I use a power conditioner as the main switch, so that also helps insure
> > regulating power and avoiding spikes..
> >
>
> That's a good idea but won't help with the inrush current of suddenly 
> switching all the gear on simultaneously.
>
> The power ratings are the continuous load, it says nothing about the 
> big surge as all those smoothing capacitors charge up and that is a 
> fair old whack.
>
> >
> > however not to assume too much I found this thread and as you can see
> > yes some opinions are varied but there are guys in here who have 
> done it
> > for many many years and even some pointing out the advantage of not
> > wearing out the on/off switches of aging gear.
>
> Can't say I've ever seen a worn-out on/off switch. I'm not saying it 
> can't happen, but it wouldn't be the first failure mode I'd look for, 
> put it that way.
>
> > but yea what I'm trying to do is figure out how I can remove the need
> > for using D batteries as a backup since I'm not planning on playing 
> this
> > thing portably though I wouldn't mind keeping that ability of course.
>
> Look at how synths that use Nicad or coin cell batteries (or like the 
> Kurzweils, a stack of HP7s in an easily-accessible hatch underneath) 
> for memory backup.
>
> Basically you want to cut the supply to the RAM chip and add a diode 
> from +5V to the chip, and then add a backup battery with a diode to 
> stop the +5V rail trying to charge it.
>
> -- 
> Gordonjcp MM0YEQ
>
>