Yamaha DTXpress/DTXplorer/DTXtreme

Hi All,
My HH65 stopped working this week, after owning it for about 6
months. 
It looks like I will get a free replacement from Yamaha, but I am 
concerned about this happening again ouside the warranty period. I 
understand that It's going to wear, but I dont want to buy a new HH65 
each time, especially when its the Force Sensitive Resistor and the 
rubber pad above it thats wears out and the rest of the pedal is
fine. 
Is their an email or phone number to get hold of these repacement 
parts? I'm in the England UK. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I had a similar problem with my HH65. It suddenly responded only 50% of the time. This 
was within the warrenty period, fortunately. Although I had two wait for a few months I got 
a perfectly working new one and never had a problem with it. So I guess it's just a matter 
of bad luck. 

Erik Paul

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "mtremeth" <auxe@l...> wrote:

> Hi All,
> My HH65 stopped working this week, after owning it for about 6
> months. 
> It looks like I will get a free replacement from Yamaha, but I am 
> concerned about this happening again ouside the warranty period. I 
> understand that It's going to wear, but I dont want to buy a new HH65 
> each time, especially when its the Force Sensitive Resistor and the 
> rubber pad above it thats wears out and the rest of the pedal is
> fine. 
> Is their an email or phone number to get hold of these repacement 
> parts? I'm in the England UK. Thanks in advance.

--- In DTXpress@yahoogroups.com, "mtremeth" <auxe@l...> wrote:
> Hi All,
> My HH65 stopped working this week, after owning it for about 6
> months. 
> It looks like I will get a free replacement from Yamaha, but I am 
> concerned about this happening again ouside the warranty period. I 
> understand that It's going to wear, but I dont want to buy a new 
HH65 
> each time, especially when its the Force Sensitive Resistor and the 
> rubber pad above it thats wears out and the rest of the pedal is
> fine. 
> Is their an email or phone number to get hold of these repacement 
> parts? I'm in the England UK. Thanks in advance.

Yamaha apparently is poor represented in the UK. Go to the 
Drumbalaya.com website and drop Ed Morin and his staff a line. There's 
precious little in the e-drum world that Ed can't procure, even for 
the UK.

Thanks guys for your replies, I will contact Drumbalaya. A quick 
search doesn't show any spares of this kind for Yamaha. I still do
not 
know if the Force Sensitive Resistor and rubber piece is available as 
spares anywhere. Protecting the bass drum pad was easy with extra 
padding on it, but their is no easy way around the HH65 problem.