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Re: [yamahacs80] Troubleshooting the EGs

2011-11-19 by The Old Crow

Take a 16-pin DIL socket, cut it into halves: two 8-pin SIL sockets. ;)

   Try replacing the timing capacitor for that EG.

Crow
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On 11/19/2011 2:13 AM, b3groover wrote:
> Hi friends,
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> So... does this mean that it's not the EG chip at fault, but rather
> it's companion VCA?  I wish I had socketed the "new" VCAs but I don't
> have any SIP sockets (and Mouser didn't have any 8pin SIP sockets
> either, strangely enough).  Is this a common fault with these
> machines?  If so, I'm hoping perhaps the VCA EG chip on voice card M4
> is not actually dead either, like I thought, nor is the filter EG chip
> on voice card M3, but rather their respective companion VCAs.
>
> Thoughts?
> ----Jim
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