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Re: [vintagesynthrepair] Re: Arp Axxe - CV Memory problem - De-Bounce Keyboard?

2008-07-20 by Roy J. Tellason

On Thursday 17 July 2008 11:22, Mike Hunter wrote:
> Well, cleaning the CV Memory section of the board seems to licked the
> problem.high impedance indeed!

Oh yeah!  They told me at the factory (when I was there in 1977 :-) that 
they'd originally tried to make those boards with a coating on them but that 
too much moisture and other contaminants were retained,  and it created all 
sorts of problems...

> Cleaned the keyboard contacts (what a clever, yet archaic mechanism) and
> licked that problem as well.

Cool.

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