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Default Vintage synthesizers are sometimes cantankerous

On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Gareth Magennis wrote:



"Phil Hobbs" wrote in message ...

I'm building a demo system in my lab, and not one, but _both_ of my
HP3325A synthesizers went flatline.

One had almost no output, missing attenuator steps, and distorted wave
shapes, and the other one flunked two of its three self-tests. Not good.

Turned out that ripping out the relay boards and cleaning the contacts
and connectors with DeOxit fixed both of them. (Score.)

(Thanks to the estimable Herbert Susmann for his web page.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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Bugger, for a minute there I thought you were talking about a Minimoog or an
ARP.

That's what I was thinking.

Michael