Elektron Musical Instruments

The power supplys are external and the sid station does use a rather 
high amount of amps condidering.  It is hard to find external 
wallwart style power supplys that give a nice clean power source so I 
can see the radio shack one referenced in the other reply causing 
issues.  As for the needing to be replaced every few years that is 
debatable.  The trick is thus...a standard power supply such as those 
in a computer or most synths have a power switch that cuts the power 
pre transformer and power supply...a piece of electronics that uses a 
wallwart style of power supply can only shut off the power post 
transformer and power supply...this in effect means that the power 
supply is always on even though the synth is turned off.  The longer 
a piece of electronics is on the greater the chance it will 
fail...thats just life...so yeah they burn out faster than an 
internal style but a good quality one should last quite some time.

-Pas

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, slv01@m... wrote:
> HI all.
> There is a sidstation up for auction on ebay that I am considering 
to buy. The seller 
> says it is in great shape and works perfect. In an email he said 
that he got it off 
> another guy who said it did not work, but he found out that just 
the power supply 
> was dead. So he replaced the power supply, and now it is fine. He 
told me that power 
> supplys on the sidstation needs to be replaced every year or so. Is 
this true and a 
> common occurance with the sidstations? If so doo the guuys at 
Elektron do the 
> replacement? or is it a DIY job? Any information about this or 
advise on purchasing 
> this sidstation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> -Jason