Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

sorry Nick - just noticed you're in Australia !

I guess you will have the equivalent of our (UK) Argos superstores
:-)

regards,
William


--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "William Sutherland" <ws@l...> 
wrote:
> Nick,
> 
> I had the same thought - and discovered that the power supply in 
my 
> 10 yr old daughter's Yamaha keyboard is the same as the Dtxpress - 
> you can get them from Argos I think much more cheaply than from 
> Yamaha.
> 
> Reassuringly I've never had a failure in 4 years - and the 
Dtxpress 
> Mk1 itself has never been any bother either.  However the power 
> supply to my daughter's keyboard did fail and we replaced it with 
> one from Argos.  So it's a wise precaution.
> 
> regards,
> William
> 
> 
> --- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "Nick Carroll" <njcarroll56@y...> 
> wrote:
> > I've been playing my DTXpress (original model) with my country 
> band 
> > for 18 months now, both at practice and at gigs.  It has been a 
> big 
> > success.  But the thought has suddenly occurred to me: What if 
the 
> > 12 volt DC power adaptor should fail?  Then we would have no 
> drums! 
> > Has anyone been caught out like that?  I am thinking I should 
buy 
> a 
> > spare power adaptor, just in case the first one should fail.