Doepfer

Ok, I replaced the fuse in the power plug and all is good again, but 
Doug at En-port (u.s. retailer and representative) told me to use a 
fast blow fuse. You say slow blow type. Anyone else have input or 
know where I can find the spec? I looked on the doepfer site but it 
didnt' really say when I looked at the power supply manual page.
I'm going to wait until I get responses to get back to programming.
Time to watch a movie! :)
and yea. first things I did were to unplug power and patch leads... 
just makes a guy panic when his favorite synth tells him NO! 

thanks alot. 
ben

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Stinchcombe <timothy@t...>" 
<timothy@t...> wrote:
 
> Take the plug out of the back of the case. Immediately above the 
> where the plug fits is where the fuse is, you'll need to lever it 
out 
> with a screwdriver or the like, from underneath. The fuses are not 
> ordinary 13-amp plug types, but special 'time-lag' ones. (It would 
be 
> as well to check the one in the plug too, to see which has blown.) 
> Maplin sell the time-lag ones, so I'm sorry to say you will 
probably 
> not get it going again straight away - use the time to try and 
> establish what happened(!). If it's not an obvious wayward piece of 
> metal shorting something across one of the boards, then it's hard 
to 
> suggest what it might be - generally all modules have short circuit 
> protection built in, because the very act of inserting patch leads 
> tends to short things momentarily to ground, so it's unlikely to be 
a 
> loose or dangling lead. You could try taking your current patch 
apart 
> lead-by-lead to see if you might have wired up something in a non-
> nice way (though again this Doepfer stuff seems pretty unburstable 
> from that point of view, so I think this is very unlikely). The 
only 
> time it happened to me is when I was using it power something on a 
> breadboard - I connected an op amp the wrong way - and it blew the 
> fuse in short order (chip still seemed to work though!).
> 
> Tim