Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

I had something similar happen to mine not too terribly long ago. I 
replaced the fuses. All has been fine since. Of course, now I always 
make sure to have fuses and the appropriate allen wrench handy.

-Geren

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "gottamakethings" 
<gottamakethings@a...> wrote:
> 
> As some of you know I have cherished my VFX-SD as a trouble free 
road 
> warrior over at least 10 years. The other day I bought a Karma on 
> eBay, but it wasn't to replace the VFX, just to add to my stack. 
The 
> VFX took it the wrong way:
> 
> I turned it on and I just get a very faint illummination of a few 
> characters on the right and left of the display. No floppy no 
> booting. So I checked the power supply and found F3 and F4 are both 
> blown. I can't find any of the old schematic postings so I thought 
I 
> would throw it out there (Richard). Where do I go from here? I do 
> know electronics, but I am not taking on a main board if these are 
> going to that. 
> 
> Thoughts? Could I get lucky?  The VFX is still hands down the BEST 
> controller ever evented for those of us who like layering on a 
> unweighted, but high quality keyboard. I spent hours looking at the 
> new Tritons, Motifs and Fantoms and nothing beats double click 
access 
> to 12 patches realtime.
> 
> Thanks for any help you all can offer. BTW if you haven't checked 
out 
> a Karma, it really fits witht the VFX and it is great poor man's 
> Triton.
> 
> Dan