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-----Original Message-----
>From: tomdcour <tomdcour@amnh.org>
>Sent: Dec 4, 2007 8:56 AM
>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: CMC4
>
>---Yes I will, it's in another computer photo library so I apologize for the delay.
>Mine is a servo motor 2 that was installes in the 70's by Sound Sales- maybe yours is 
>different and doesn't employ the tape head. Any one else on the list know what I'm talking 
>about?
>
>
> In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tomdcour" <tomdcour@...> wrote:
>>
>> Yes indeed--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "tomdcour" <tomdcour@> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > ---I'm not an "expert" but I had trouble with my servo at one point, giving the wobble 
>> > effect you describe. I cleaned the tape head that was reading sync information off the 
>> > motor gear- it was absolutely covered with crap. After that my tron limped along 
>> famously 
>> > for years before Mr. Korb completely healed it. BTW I think I have cmc2 on #390


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Season's Greetings Tom and Fellow Mellotronists,


Your M400 #390 has an SMS2 card within it.  "Servo Motor System" .
Unmodified M400's were fitted with the  CMC10  .  "Capstan Motor Control."

SFX and M300 models and a few of the first M400's had the   CMC4 within.

The SMS series is simply the best, the CMC-10 simply the worst (wurst, "porkers").
And the CMC4 falls in-between.       

 For those here who haven't seen the first-generation pitch contol,
it was the VFO.  To put it succintly,  about  30 lb. of electronic bits needed to
control a 4-5 lb AC motor .   


Cheers, -- JK --

Damn, at that weight, it sounds like it would not only handle pitch
bends, but frame bends as well.
johnb

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, jkorb@... wrote:
>
>  For those here who haven't seen the first-generation pitch contol,
> it was the VFO.  To put it succintly,  about  30 lb. of electronic
bits needed to

> control a 4-5 lb AC motor .   
> 
> 
> Cheers, -- JK --
>