Vintage Simmons Drums (UK) Users Group

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From: "sevebc" <seve.bc@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: [Simmons Drums] Simmons prices and quality

Jesper:
>>"Three words for you: ebay.de and ends today!" That's FOUR!!!

Stephen:
>Thanks for the prompt Jesper regarding the SDS6. It went for ?917.00
>\ufffd630.00 which suggests that wallets are well stocked in Germany. A
>new Ananlogue Solutions Oberkorn sequencer (without the worries of
>dry solder joints) is \ufffd599.00 including casing. My desire to collect
>Simmons equipment does not stretch to overpaying for equipment - but
>then perhaps I'm a skinflint. The relative scarsity of SDS6's within
>Europe certainly plays a part FWIW.

Does anyone know how many SDS-6\ufffds where made ?
Mine is serialnumber 62.

I don\ufffdt think the oberkorn is really compareable to the SDS-6, mainly due to
the lack of visual confirmation.

Stephen:
>>>On another note has anyone any experience of changing the power
>>>supplies in any of the earlier SDS Simmons units?

>>"Lasse is your man",

>Lasse come home - joke smile plllease ......OK a BAD joke I admit.

Hehe.....

>I've missed Lasse's contributions. It's really a general enquiry as I
>noticed that the power supply in the SDS7 is silicon protected -
>though the PSU in my unit is gleaming (so it's bound to fail now I've
>said that). I was impressed with how servicable the SDS7 unit was
>when I stripped mine for a through cleaning adjustment of the
>selector unit and to replace the CMOS battery

I changed the main transformer on my SDS-V that I bought from the US. I used
an 80VA torodial transformer that should be relatively easy to source in the
UK. Also, don\ufffdt forget to change the main fuse.

Other parts are just standard 7815 and 7915 regulators, diodes and
capacitors.

I suspect the SDS-7 power supply is a bit more complicated than the SDS-V\ufffds.

Best,

LJ a.k.a Lasse but my real name is Lars. Also, I\ufffdve been known to call
myself Waveterm !

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