Rhodes Chroma Polaris

> From: conorstrachan@...
> 
> Worked a treat! 
> 
> Just got my Polaris. 
> Keyboard springs dislodged in transit. That is fine. 
> Strangely one of the keys has a missing weight, no where to be seen. 
> Output was desoldered in transit that was easy fix. 
> 
> This one however has turned up with a missing 3372! Two of 
> the voices are failing to calibrate. How would you proceed 
> With two unworking voices, one of them missing VCF? 
> 
> Sounds incredible though as a four voice! 

When diagnosing a bad voice, the first thing to do is to try swapping chips between it and a working voice. That's the benefit of having socketed chips. If the problem moves to the other voice, then you've found a bad chip that should be replaced. If none of the chips are bad, then you have to go to the next level and start using tools like a scope, and careful reasoning to figure out what's wrong.

The obvious fix for the missing 3372 is a 3372. Unfortunately, they're a bit pricey.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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