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Re: More repair tips

2005-12-14 by tkrotchko

Ah.  Now I see what you're talking about. Are these caps referred to
as CX03-X35 and CX02-X27?  The service manual refers to them as mylar,
although it shows quantity 25 and 52 of each type.

You also say "be careful not to remove the battery".  Can you explain
why?  I realize the memory will be lost, but why does it matter?

Also, is there any pictures of the mainboard out there to get an idea
of what I'm up against?

The symptoms that I'm seeing right now is  that if I just play right
up the scale, I'll see every few notes just out of tune.  And its the
same note every time.  Like if I play up the scale, "C" will be out of
tune.

--Tom

--- In chromapolaris@yahoogroups.com, "bkuris" <benjamin.kuris@h...>
wrote:

[...]

> The fix was to replace the S/H capacitors which are the 4 orange caps 
> on either side of the TL084 opamps near the CEM voice chip.  
> Replacement caps were panasonic polypropylene caps from 
> www.digikey.com.   I didn't want to take out the motherboard so it

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