Today I had a CS80 in for a service. Basically most of the voices were
working, but a couple were dead and there was the usual problem with unequal
volume and filter cutoff. Nothing too drastic then. I found two dead oscillator
chips, but have some spares, so that fixed that. So, after several hours work,
all of panel 1 was sounding pretty decent.
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Then the audio just quit. No output. Nothing. I checked the fuses and power
supplies, all appear good. Taking an oscillator card, I can see a key voltage on
Pin 2 of the VCO chip which changes as I play the keyboard, yet no waveform
output. Take another card, same thing.
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So, how about the white noise? It comes into the M card, but doesn’t leave
the filters.
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Next thing – I find that the ground on the M card is referenced to GND2. If
I meter between the GND1 and GND2, I see around 2k ohms. Confused???
So am I. So if I measure the 15V rail at the VCO chip, I see around +11V if I
take the negative lead of the meter to the metal chassis.
