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Re: [disklavier] Re: The key drive temperature is very high

2017-06-22 by Dmitry

Hi guys,

Just in case it might be useful one day to someone. I was able to "fix" the issue by re-calibrating the pedal. Last time when technician finished the maintenance he told me he slightly adjusted the pedal position. I didn't pay much attention to it and forgot about this. Today when I was recording myself in the headphones I was able to reproduce my recording without a problem (as the pedal was not moving during the playback). It came to my mind to try to record the real keys without pressing the pedal. And the piano played that normally after that. But once I added a pedal it started to show the error messages strait away (The key drive temperature is very high). I just think it was not able to move the pedal to the same position it was calibrated before the adjustment but the message was a bit misleading.
As I mentioned before after the process of the pedal calibration everything started to work perfectly.
Hope this may help someone.
Good luck,
Dmitry

On 18 November 2016 at 05:30, Bill Brandom billbrando@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

If you have a MIDI file with most notes at maximum velocity, then that is what is causing your overheating problems with the key drive unit.

Don't play that file anymore without reducing the velocities and you should no longer get that error message.

Bill

On Nov 17, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Dmitry dmitryos@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Thank you for the diagram - I will definitely check that (a bit away from home this week).
Just the issue happened first time recently (twice) but now I cannot reproduce it even I used midi files to play for about 30 min.
It might happen that the issue was caused by a file that was not "designed" for disklavier - looks like all the notes had maximum volume. But not sure - I didn't want to run that file again as it was that loud and don't want to stress the piano again.
I might contact Yamaha but need to be sure what to tell them if it will be a consistent issue I think as a general maintenance was done recently (within 4 months).

On 17 November 2016 at 01:32, tnmshd@... [disklavier] <disklavier@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I guess that your Disklavier system needs fine adjustment.

Most of the reason why the piano performance stops is insufficient adjustment of the pedal
pedal regulate and measurement.(The most important point)
key regulate and measurement.
Regular regulation and tuning.

How about asking Yamaha?



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