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What interests me is that your machine works for a bit, then fails for an hour.
There are two possible reasons for this:
- A component is failing when it warms up, and you must let it cool back down. I wonder what happens if you leave the machine open, with a fan blowing cold air into it. Does it stay on slightly longer?
- You have a very small crack in a solder joint etc. which acts like a capacitor. It works for a while, but then it builds up enough capacitance to cut off the connection. You have to then let it sit for a long time to bleed out the capacitance. This happened to me once with an old NeXTstation, though the bleed-out time was about 10 days.
Either way, this doesn't sound like fun.
Sean
> On May 18, 2019, at 12:38 AM, [email protected] [k5synth] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hello thanks for your replies.
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> I have purchased a new 1.2 ROM and have it in the unit. It responds the same way as the 1.0 ROM.
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> I have been able to repeat the results: If I turn it off, battery out then on start I can briefly adjust all parameters. I set it to the master tune, adjusted it up +4 and left it for several minutes, just to see what would happen.
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> The K5 maintained flashing the +4 until I moved the data dial and we are back to limited selection. When in that state, I can rename patches, change patch volume, but I cannot save with or without battery in, with or without memory protect on/off. I also cannot change System parameters.
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> Briefly, everything is as expected, then limited control. I was bale to set MIDI channel, then back to no luck. I have to leave it off for about an hour to get it to briefly allow System changes.
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> I think perhaps one of the RAM chips is failing or somehow being shut off, this could be as you mentioned a power supply issue. I have schematics from Kawai, there are several RAM chips on both the M-03 and M-04 board, but I think It could be the working RAM.
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> I'm also wondering if the RAM is getting written too by the system and filling up.
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> It doesn't help that I have an early revision, with jumpers soldered here and there and oddly the ROM in the alternate slot. I purchased another K5m motherboard and it has numerous differences, would not work with the K5 shell I have I think because of the power headers in different locations.
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