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Aug. 31st, 2006
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Aug. 31st, 2006 03:22 pmWheee!
I have replaced the backlight AND finished rebuilding the keyboard on the D70.
Which demonstrated Just How Much it loves me, by then suffering failure of the LCD. Changing the backlight must have disturbed some of the connections, so I need to get EVEN more into the machine and clean the rubber contact strips.
On the plus side, every key now works, the aftertouch is super-responsive (as opposed to completely broken, or the more normal "Stand an elephant on the keyboard" level you get from old Rolands), and the display is lovely and bright, even if there are lines missing.
I've run out of electrical cleaner, however, so I have to stop. I should do some work instead I guess; just had hopes of managing to get the D70 completely done.
Pictures soon, just to reinforce just how much of a bugger the D70 is to work on. The LCD panel is BELOW a button panel, screwed onto it, so the whole thing has to come out - for testing, it is very precariously connected-but-balanced-so-nothing-shorts-out.
I'm wary of fiting the new backlights to my synths now, but I will do it eventually.
(And forgot to click send)...
Tried another level on the Rotax today. As a result, was too knackered to finish the usual routine. My legs feel like jelly.
I have replaced the backlight AND finished rebuilding the keyboard on the D70.
Which demonstrated Just How Much it loves me, by then suffering failure of the LCD. Changing the backlight must have disturbed some of the connections, so I need to get EVEN more into the machine and clean the rubber contact strips.
On the plus side, every key now works, the aftertouch is super-responsive (as opposed to completely broken, or the more normal "Stand an elephant on the keyboard" level you get from old Rolands), and the display is lovely and bright, even if there are lines missing.
I've run out of electrical cleaner, however, so I have to stop. I should do some work instead I guess; just had hopes of managing to get the D70 completely done.
Pictures soon, just to reinforce just how much of a bugger the D70 is to work on. The LCD panel is BELOW a button panel, screwed onto it, so the whole thing has to come out - for testing, it is very precariously connected-but-balanced-so-nothing-shorts-out.
I'm wary of fiting the new backlights to my synths now, but I will do it eventually.
(And forgot to click send)...
Tried another level on the Rotax today. As a result, was too knackered to finish the usual routine. My legs feel like jelly.
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Aug. 31st, 2006 06:02 pmhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120026654885
Check it out - whilst it lasts... ;)
Check it out - whilst it lasts... ;)
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Aug. 31st, 2006 10:56 pmWell, the D70 didn't wholly defeat me; it has a small victory in that I simply cannot handle taking it all apart AGAIN to sort a bug I can see... but I managed to get it from half the LCD being dead, to 1 line dead and one line transposed as far as I can tell. This means the little rubber contact strip has probably shifted diagonally a touch, but you know what... if I keep unbending the tags to dismantle it, they're going to snap, and it's considerably more useable now anyway.
No screws lost, no cables trapped, all cleaned up and ready to go.
You can tell, of course, that the dead line on the LCD is bugging me, but the risk of being unable to rebuild it and having to replace the whole LCD module means I have to declare 'enough'.
Pictures tomorrow for those who care!
Dare I replace the A/T strip in the JD800...
No screws lost, no cables trapped, all cleaned up and ready to go.
You can tell, of course, that the dead line on the LCD is bugging me, but the risk of being unable to rebuild it and having to replace the whole LCD module means I have to declare 'enough'.
Pictures tomorrow for those who care!
Dare I replace the A/T strip in the JD800...