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> I have many devices in my muzik room, (a couple hundred). I turn them
> all on and off at the same time EXCEPT Amps. I have a couple power
> strips plugged in ahead of the main one to leave some things powered
> up 24/7. Of course, this means that if you lose house power, you'll
> lose data. Mainly it saves the memory batteries for when I DO need them.
> Rig
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> On Tue, 7/12/16, Caleb Garner caleb.garner@... [CZsynth]
> <CZsynth@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Subject: Re: [CZsynth] Best backup battery solution for CZ-1000?
> To: CZsynth@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 10:13 AM
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> replying to both emails in
> here more or less:
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> - cool about the battery.. yea that diode makes me
> nervous.. no idea
> where that would go..
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> - 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.
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> - 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..
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>
> - 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.
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> - 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..
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> - 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
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> Thanks! :)
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> Caleb
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> Gordonjcp gordon@...
> [CZsynth] wrote:
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> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 04:23:09AM -0400, Caleb
> Garner
> caleb.garner@...
> [CZsynth] wrote:
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> > I use a power conditioner as the main switch, so that
> also helps
> insure
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> > regulating power and avoiding spikes..
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> That's a good idea but won't help with the inrush
> current of suddenly
> switching all the gear on simultaneously.
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> 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.
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> > however not to assume too much I found this thread and
> as you can
> see
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> > 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
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> > wearing out the on/off switches of aging gear.
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> 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.
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> > but yea what I'm trying to do is figure out how I
> can remove the
> need
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> > for using D batteries as a backup since I'm not
> planning on playing
> this
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> > thing portably though I wouldn't mind keeping that
> ability of
> course.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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