Midibox Sid doesn't power on

[Yeso]

Thanks for your help

Edited March 27, 2011 by Yeso

[Yeso]

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Edited March 27, 2011 by Yeso

[Wilba]

I must admit, from the photos this looks quite badly made. I certainly don't like the idea of mains power wires insulated by a few bits of electrical tape!

For your own safety, I recommend not powering this unit again with mains power.

If it was mine, I'd start by ripping out the transformer and rebuilding it using power from a plugpack. The schematics are all available at www.ucapps.de you just need to look at the MIDIbox SID section and the Core and SID module sections. But I'm suspecting the problem is power related and the connections between boards are probably still OK... if someone can supply it with the required power, it will probably fire up again and be back in business.

[phunk]

Ouch!

[Yeso]

the opped off the box at the shop. The tech took an interest right away and got the idea of it's workings. I'll just have to hand him the schematics for him to know what power is to be distributed exactly and for testing. He noticed no insulation between the boards and the metal. It might not have caused the short but it can't be good either.

A whole new psu option could be considered as well. I'll report back as soon as I know something. I'm really hoping it's just the transformer though.

Thanks Wilba

[Yeso]

Thanks again

Edited March 27, 2011 by Yeso