Well I opened up the Emax again, all PSU voltages were good at the floppy and inverter.
Taking a scientific approach, I went over all the mods I made, pin by pin and found some cold solder joints on the new OLED display I installed.
Fixed those and she's back!!!
*phew*
-Dave
> On Feb 17, 2014, at 8:25, David Sotnick <sotnickd@...> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Now it's my turn… I'm sad to report that my beloved Emax SE Rack which I upgraded to SCSI and slim floppy is no longer booting.
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> Symptoms are: PSU voltages look good at the drive power connector. All LEDs on the front panel come on at power-on except load and enter. No LCD display and no floppy or CF reader activity. :-(
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> I have re-seated all cables but have not yet removed and re-seated any socketed ICs. It has just been sitting in a rack, so nothing has been jostled.
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> Any suggestions on where to start?
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> -Dave
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> p.s. even more frustrating: I missed out on a $60 working Emax SE on a local Craig's list ad which posted the day before I discovered my Emax was dead. :-(
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Re: [emax] Diagnosing non-functional Emax
2014-02-18 by Ted Summers
They are still copyrighted, and avallable from musicparts.com I believe.
-Ted
On Feb 17, 2014, at 8:56 PM, wandamusic@... wrote:
Well success is great!
Are there service manuals for these instdruments?
In a message dated 2/17/2014 11:49:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
sotnickd@... writes: