Emax

what rev mother board do you have for your emax

as i have boards that can be converted to scsi

now the brackets are zinc coated metal strips with holes in i cut the strips into 4 equal sizes  for the keyboard they are screwed to the cf scsi card drive or to the bracket for the external male 34pin idc connector

the bracket then is drilled through the hole of the holder and 4 self tap screws are screwed to hold the plate 

the brackets are then fixed to the bracket floppy holes and to the slim floppy via 3mm and 2mm screws with rubber washers which i get from my bolts and screw supplier

the rack you drill 2 holes into the one bracket holder of the emax that holds the floppy drive then you fix 2 brackets to the opposite side 

you fix the slim floppy to the 2 holes in the emax bracket one side and then fix the bracket and the hole for the scsi cf drive or the bracket for the external connection to a hxc rev f

and then fix the other end of the brackets to the slim floppy 

on the rack the slim floppy adapter fixes to the top of the casing right behind the slim floppy drive in line with the flat cable i use 3mm 30mm screws with 15mm 3mm pillas

the slim floppy adapter then sits on the pillas and it bolted down with washers and nuts

you need to add a toggle on/off switch to the metal plate with the 34 pin idc so that when you have the hxc plugged in you switch the power of to the slim floppy and the signals are still connected to the hxc via a external cable and you can archive your sounds in the hxc

you need a specail cable made it has 2 female idc 34 pin connectors and 1 male with lugs that gets bolted to the metal 3.5" floppy size bracket

then on both synths you can use an external hxc rev f drive for both devices rather than having the cost of 2 hxc rev f drives

if just fitting the rev f drives and slim floppy combo its the same but the toggle would have to be fitted to the rev f hxc drive 

bruce should be able to work this out

i have had many parts from bruce for fixing sp12/1200 as he is the only stockist of the drum pad contact switches 

any slim floppy will do i have had mitshuta /teac/sony/ibm branded which were teac

and a few others they all work as they have to follow the same specs for the slim floppy specs

i have had brand new nos drives for £10 recently

the slim floppy adapters are available from ebay in usa and as your in usa the postage is cheap the conversion is available from teds site 

and i looked on ebay and theres loads of nos slim floppy drives 

bruce will need if fitting a hxc and slim floppy a 3 x 34 pin female idc connectors and a custom ribbon which he will need to measure in side the machine as the rack and keyboard dimentions are different  so that one connector fits the digital board then the second connector fits the slim floppy adapter and the last fits the hxc rev f drive 

the toggle needt to be wired to the 5v cable using a double pole switch and the he needs a normally closed and normally open toggle switch  and 2 sets of cables to minispox female floppy power the normally closed goes to the slim floppy adapter and the normally open goes to the hxc rev f 

bruce should have all the crimpers for this

i hope this helps 

at some point when i get time ill do a pdf on it as i have done loads of slim floppy cf card instalations  and 1 of these new external bracket types which im doing for several synths to make life easy as floppy is still not dead yet 


----- Original Message ----- 
  From: guitar5l50@... 
  To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 11:18 PM
  Subject: [emax] HXC REV F + SLIM FLOPPY w/ Switch


    
  Hello Jamie,




  I know you have answered many questions regarding the slim floppy.
  I'm working with Bruce Forat to get things in place here. Bruce and I did some awesome switch mod stuff with my Emulator II as well.


  I have an non SCSI Emax Keyboard and Rack.
  Can I install the HXC Rev F with the Slim Floppy drive fitting above it?


  Can you please reply to this thread?


  What mounting brackets and floppy connection adapters are be needed for both the non SCSI Emax keyboard and rack?
  What make and model for the slim floppy drives?


  The goal here is to have a 3.5" floppy drive and the HxC emulator and switch between the 2 for archive sound bank to disk image transfers.


  Thanks again for all of your help.
  -Robert



  
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