Elektron Musical Instruments

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 09:54:37AM +0000, Henry Favretto wrote:
> Did you check you power supply? My Sidstation came without a PSU so I 
> bought one according to the recommendations in the manual (as far as I 
> can remember it was something like 450mA/6V) but it caused problems 
> (like random resetting...). So I returned the PSU and got another 
> (adjustable) one , which now works fine. Just a thought...

I know that the sid chip is +5V, so I'm guessing that the +6V is run
through a power regulator to get +5V.  That's not very much margin for
power supply ripple -- I'll check out my crappy rat shack power supply
with an oscilloscope on Monday.

My question to the sidstation engineers: can I feed the sidstation a
higher voltage and not kill it?  (like 9 or 12V?  Also why didn't you
put in a diode to protect from reverse polarity power supplies?)  And
why oh why did you have to use those damn torx nuts for the case?  :)

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