Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

Fabio,

Your fuse isn't blown if the unit still made music. It might satisfy your curiousity (or anxiety) to open it up and locate any potential source of 'burnt smell' inside. DON'T touch anything inside without a grounding strap on your wrist. Make sure (sorry to state the over-obvious) the VFX is unplugged. The "pop" may or may not have been a static discharge (unlikely, though) or some component anomaly related to over-heating.

If the heating problem didn't kill your VFX this time, be sure of this: IT WILL eventually. An E-Cooler is a very expensive solution to an active cooling remedy. It might be prettier than a $5 Walmart fan but it is also on the back of the unit. And since most of us are not having our Ensoniqs pose in fasion shows it seems to me that asthetics are not at all important.

There's my 2 cents worth...


UCD




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From: somethingkillingyou <somethingkillingyou@...>
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, November 8, 2009 11:41:55 AM
Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: ...what happened to my SD-1?!?

  
well I hope so! 
btw I'm not skilled at all when it comes to electronic stuff, so I really can't do that modification myself...
so maybe an ecooler would fix that?! 
I don't do gigs, but sure I don't like the fact that it gets too hot and it's not that reliable in its actual state...

is the ecooler also available for european 220v voltage?!

p.s. should I check the fuse(s) anyway?!
Fabio

--- In Ensoniq-VFX- SD@yahoogroups. com, Eric Hall <jester_123@ ...> wrote:
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> Might have just crashed because it got to hot. My VFX-SD has done that before, though maybe not in that exact way. I put an old computer cooling fan on the heat sink and now I can leave it on 24/7 no problem. It's amazingly stable when you add a little cooling. 
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> --- On Sun, 11/8/09, somethingkillingyou <somethingkillingyo u@...> wrote:
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> Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX- SD] ...what happened to my SD-1?!?
> To: Ensoniq-VFX- SD@yahoogroups. com
> Date: Sunday, November 8, 2009, 12:14 PM
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> I was jamming in my studio; after two hours circa I heard a 'boom' through my studio monitors, and guess what!?, my sd-1 display was black...
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> I have yet to open it, so I guess I should be looking for something in particular, given the facts I just described... 
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> I'm no technician at all, but I think I could easily change blown fuse(s)
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