Xpantastic!

Hi,
 
Just a thought, If you come across a trashed Chroma Polaris, These have the same VCO,s in them.   
 
 Karl Schmeer
 


--- On Wed, 1/13/10, schmuckfenster <schmuckfenster@...> wrote:


From: schmuckfenster <schmuckfenster@...>
Subject: [xpantastic] CEM 3374
To: xpantastic@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 3:22 PM


  



Hi everyone

Only was 'lurking' in this group so far. I have fulfilled an old dream and bought an Xpander some months ago and all was fine. Until one voice died. I checked the chips by trial & error and found the one causing it (it makes that voice it is put onto fail the tuning and not sound at all).

By then I did not know yet that the 3374 is so rare...I could not find any and I wrote to many 'vintage repair shops' and scanned ebay, posted in forums etc.

So if anyone has a trusty source that would give me back my 6th voice I'd be highly grateful. For the moment I switched the voice off of course.

To be honest, I also ask myself what actually does 'fail' in such a chip? Is it a physical 'burning' through or just a contact that is lost? No way of trying to repair the chip itself?

Many thanks for any help.

Kind Regards