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Re: [xpantastic] It's official- my Xpander is sick

2008-09-02 by Chase Smith

What about the DAC Mono test (pass or fail)? I will guess that you can probably fix this by recapping the power supply board. When I got my Xpander I had issues with the tuning tests and it being terribly out of tune and a recap fixed it.

Chase

Tony Cappellini wrote:


It looks like I won't need to do an A/B comparison with Jeremy's wave file, I can easily hear now that my Xpander is not working well.

Prior to this and the reason I had posted a message looking for someone local to the SF Bay Area was that only on 1 patch did my Xpander sound very bad.

I had found one voice which was flaky, so I turned it off.

Recently, I happen to hit several keys at once and could hear the vcos being grossly out of tune.

After trying to tune everything, I get FAIL across the board.

In the past, when I would see FAIL after running autotune, I would wait 30 min, run it again and all tests would pass. This is not the case now.


Fortunately, I've got a few spare CEMs which I hope are all working, that I can use to troubleshoot with.

I haven't looked at the service manual in years- I hope there are some measurements I can make with a voltmeter to give me some ideas.

I can probably borrow a scope to check for ripple on the output of the PS but don't really know how much ripple would be excessive for the XP PS.

All other front panel functions & midi appear to be working normally, so it's probably not likely to be a PS issue.



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