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- SX-1 LE v. 1.52
Roughly one month ago, I watched as a large spider crawled into the channel five fader slot. Not sure what could happen, I grabbed the canned air and shot a quick couple of bursts across the slot. The console shut down and when rebooted, would not complete the boot process.
Things I have noticed that are now irregular are as follows. I'll list them in order of sequence or as I remember them.
I've started disassembling and exploring inside and am taking photos during the process.
Although I am very technically able, I am not a Service Technician. The only thing out of the norm that I can see is that several (10 showing issues visually) of the 6.3v 330µF capacitors on the channel gains PCB appear to be expanding or blowing out of the bottoms of the capacitor canisters. My next step will be to test the row of caps I've referred to hear with a meter. Then I guess it's time to start a parts list.
If you have any experience with this and have any info or guidance to share, please let me know here. My goal is to either identify and correct the problems with this console and keep her, or document them as best as I can in preparation to ship to another forum user who has expressed interest.
Wish me luck!
- Justin
Things I have noticed that are now irregular are as follows. I'll list them in order of sequence or as I remember them.
- The channel five encoder LED ring flashes full, one time.
- The VGA output never feeds a signal other than what appears to be video sync etc. as you can see that the monitor is lit and waiting for video.
- The fader calibration begins but hangs.
- The hardware initialization on the LCD hangs.
I've started disassembling and exploring inside and am taking photos during the process.
Although I am very technically able, I am not a Service Technician. The only thing out of the norm that I can see is that several (10 showing issues visually) of the 6.3v 330µF capacitors on the channel gains PCB appear to be expanding or blowing out of the bottoms of the capacitor canisters. My next step will be to test the row of caps I've referred to hear with a meter. Then I guess it's time to start a parts list.
If you have any experience with this and have any info or guidance to share, please let me know here. My goal is to either identify and correct the problems with this console and keep her, or document them as best as I can in preparation to ship to another forum user who has expressed interest.
Wish me luck!
- Justin
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