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Re: WTB: Prophet 5 rev 3.2 Power Supply

2007-10-12 by gil_we

Thanks !

I'll readdly appreciate it if I could have it ;)




--- In vintagesynthrepair@yahoogroups.com, PeWe <ha-pewe@...> wrote:
>
> Hi !
> 
> I´ll look today for the transformer, - must be somewhere in a box 
here 
> in my house.
> My own Prophet is gone since the mid 90th,- so I can´t test the 
> transformer in a working Prophet, - sorry.
> I´m keyboardist, not tech, but I keep al working partsl in stock.
> All I know is, - it was a new instrument it came from, - my own 
Prophet 
> 5 Rev. 3.3.
> The reason for the exchange was hum, - the Prophet was placed on a 
> Hohner D6 Clavinet and/or on a Fender Rhodes, - so we got hum in 
the 
> pickups - this w/ every gear which was placed on the Clav or the 
Rhodes 
> ( not Prophet specific ! ).
> A toroidal transformer minimized that hum prob caused by stacking 
on 
> electromagnetic keyboards.
> 
> If I find the transformer here, it will work IMO, - or is there any 
> reason why a transformer should not work only by waiting in a box ? 
> Don´t know ...
> 
> I´m not sure about the cable, - we´ll see ...
> 
> I don´t believe the transformers itselfs were different in Rev.2 
and 
> Rev. 3 versions, but I can´t guarantee on the other side.
> Maybe someone comes up w/ more info here in the groop.
> 
> cheers
> 
> PeWe
> 
> 
> gil_we schrieb:
> >
> > If the unit still works I'd love to buy it.
> >
> > Do you have the harness cable which goes between it and the main
> > circuit as well ?
> >
> > Also, any idea if the v3.3 powersupply if identical to the one of 
the
> > v3.2 ?
> >
> >
>

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