Fairlight-CMI

Hi Billy,

You're welcome. One might indeed suspect that all the lights are on, but
you never know when something small will fix a bigger issue. Just wanted
to mention it as an option.

The battery you show seems perfectly ok for the job to me, in fact thanks
for the pointer, I have added it to my favorites so I know where to order
one, should I desire to. If needed you can bend the wires a bit to fit the
holes on the PCB. Just watch out for shortcircuits with the wires being
bent. The Ministry unit I have came with a completely different shape
battery soldered to the back of the PCB. I removed it just to prevent
leakage at any time, but this should illustrate that size does not
matter...

I made progress with my unit today, I re-seated the 356 and it worked, now
I have some other hickups with cards. But I'm getting there.



> Hi Harald - thanks for the suggestion, I will check them but wouldn't the
> LEDs on the back
> of the machine indicate if something was amiss with fuses? Also - I should
> have
> mentioned in description of my problem that over the past month or so the
> machine
> would freeze (meaning QWERT would become unresponsive) while working. This
> seemed
> to happen while tending to other matters (such as recording audio tracks
> or mixing, fixing
> using DAW Digital Performer. in hindsight it would seem the card (or
> whatever is the
> nature of the prob is) was on its way out.  I would re-boot Fairlight and
> all would be well
> for a while.
> As far as the battery - a new dilemma:
> I have a question about the battery.  This is the battery
> Radio shack initially
> Shipped;
> http://www.Radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2715443
> As
> You can see  - its not the same size as the battery on the card though the
> Salesperson I insisted it would do the job. I sent these back and read the
> Product # and battery info to the sales person - trying to get the exact
> Same battery as on the q133 card - and to my dismay today when I checked
> the email
> from radio
> Shack it seems as though they are sending me the same battery again. Will
> This battery work?
> Product info radio shack sent me for attempted second
> Purchase:
> http://www.Radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2715443
>
> I am determined to keep my III functioning as long as I am able to make
> music.
>
>
>
>
> --- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Harald Feldmann <feldmann@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Here's a suggestion for you:
>>
>> Under the machine, where those desintegrated air filters are, there is
>> a row of small fuses, including at least one for the keyboard. You may
>> check those as well. You can take off the bottom cover by unscrewing
>> all the screws on the white bottom plate. I recommend doing this while
>> the machine is resting on the small side where the cards are, not with
>> the machine on its top because in that case all the mess with fall
>> into the interior if it hasnt already.
>>
>> I had the same problem with the air filter today and just finished
>> cleaning the unit. I now have a display issue but that is likely a
>> wrongly inserted card. I have a Q356 and it was in either of the Q256
>> slots. Probably I used the wrong slot.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:27:24 -0000, you wrote:
>>
>> >Hi guys - my update. I was able to borrow a QWERTY keyboard from NYU
>> (no telling
> what
>> >injuries this particular kybrd has suffered while institutionalized)
>> - where Suzanne
> Vega's
>> >old series III resides but when I got back to my studio and plugged it
>> into my machine,
>> >trying both ports on the music kybrd and on back of the cpu I got the
>> same result (no
>> >response).  There is a wild card I haven't mentioned but will now. When
>> I opened up
> the
>> >front of the machine to re-seat the q133 card there were little bits of
>> the air filter all
> over
>> >the inside of the machine (the filter having apparently disintegrated
>> and been flown all
>> >over the insides by the fans).  I don't know what result this might
>> cause but I cleaned
> up
>> >the insides, re-seated all the cards and am still a Fairlight junkie
>> without a fix.
>> >I am going to replace the battery - previous battery installed Dec 2003
>> - in hopes that
>> >this will clear things up. Oh - and yes Laurent I did check the back of
>> the CPU and all
>> >voltages appear to be ok.  Thanks for all your responses and
>> suggestions my Fairlight
>> >brothers. I'll keep you posted.
>> >Billyrock
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >--- In Fairlight-CMI@yahoogroups.com, Alexander Guelfenburg <vmebay@>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> ...indeed, cabling is a real issue. Within this
>> >> year we have had 3 (!) CMIs IIX for service with
>> >> this problem. Each time the cable was broken
>> >> somewhere in the middle. Check this out!
>> >>
>> >> Good luck,
>> >> Alexander
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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>> >>
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