Emax

Ok. It seems like there is much more space between the display and the pcb on the keyboard. The vfd should fit on the keyboard whilst the oled at 9mm will fit the rack version "better"? I read that you need to replace the thing on R7 to R8 and cross wire PIn 3 to ground and whatnot in some cases. Happy if I could avoid that. 

Thanks!

/Kalle

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> led lcds require a lot of chopping the pcb as they are 14mm+ as the original is 9mm the vfd is 10mm and it is slightly to big but you get away with it by drilling one hole for the coil on the back 
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> but is only good for the rack
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> oled displays are 9mm 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Chase Smith 
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 5:53 PM
>   Subject: Re: [emax] Damaged Emax in transit. Need advice to get things fixed.
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>   My friend replaced his displays with led lcds from crystalfontz.  I can't remember the exact ones and I think it may require a little work, but they look really nice and they're pretty cheap (I think around $20).  I can ask him for the part number or dimensions if you like.
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>   From: windefalk <kalle.windefalk@...>
>   To: emax@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 12:34 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Damaged Emax in transit. Need advice to get things fixed.
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>   Hi!
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>   I'm new to the group and new to using Emax. =)
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>   I received an faulty Emax 1 rack from a friend for about a month ago. It was shown (with Jammies help here on the forum) that the Echip possibly is dead, but there is a chance that a calibration can solve the problem!?
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>   I do not like to wait so I bought an Emax 1 SE keyboard a week ago. It was, according to the seller fully functional but has been damaged in transit.
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>   The damages are: 
>   1) The display is dead. In the ad for the emax keyboard the seller described that E-mu factory had repaired the display which generated a noise (Inverter replacement?)
>   From what I recall, Ted Summers said something about when the display is dead the Emax won't start. Maybe it's the LE Foil that's not working? But shouldn't one be able to read any characters then? The Emax rack's display is working. Well, the characters are shown but with no background light. 
>   I rather switch to a VFD but it seems to be a little work with that. Is there a replacement display to get somewhere? I don't wanna solder too much. 
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>   2) The keys Ab (third octave) to Db (5:th octave) generates no sound. However, it works to connect a MIDI keyboard to it and trigger all the notes. A funny thing is that on some sounds (loaded from disk), the D and Eb (5:th octave) generate sound but the voices "hangs" In most other sound banks they're dead as the other ones. It seems that only sounds with long decay, sustain and/or release are generated from the 5:th octave D and Eb. 
>   E, F, G #, G (5:th octave) do not work but the last A, A #, B is working. 
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>   Any ideas? 
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>   Regards
>   Kalle
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