Re: DX7 Memory Corruption

"danforcz [email protected] [YamahaDX]" <[email protected]>
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Now I have found in schematics, that battery voltage is measured by diagnostics directly, not through diode - it’s a wire marked VB (probably Voltage Battery) which goes to IN6 (this looks like one of inputs to IC11 = ADC), you can find it near IC10 2/2.

Daniel Forro


> On Sep 4, 2018, at 13:13, [email protected] [YamahaDX] <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> A diode can fail by going open circuit, or by becoming practically a short circuit.
> 
> If the diode is open circuit, the battery voltage would still be read as being correct - it just wouldn't provide any backup power to the RAM.
> 
> - Andy
> 
>
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