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RoyleSonanders



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:30 am    Post subject: Need help with Microwave
Subject description: Can´t turn my Microwave on.
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Greetings

I bought my Microwave around 1990, used it sporadically since then. Lately it has been turned off for, well, a couple of years.

The other day I wanted to use it, turned it on. The light in the small screen went on, I looked away for a second, and then the light was out.

Now I cannot turn it on at all.

What can be the problem here?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I should add that it´s not just the display but the entire synth that is "dead".

Rev. A as far as I can tell.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Seems nobody can help me with this one.

A friend told me that problems with the display are not uncommon, but this is not just the display.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Was wondering if maybe it has a battery inside that is dead?

I don't know the synth though ...

maybe look at http://www.gearslutz.com/board/electronic-music-instruments-electronic-music-production/545936-microwave-problem.html there are some indications in that link that a dead battery may cause to crash the synth when it tries to read the corrupted patches.

And welcome to the forum.

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also .. could someone please turn down the thermostat a bit.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Blue Hell wrote:
Was wondering if maybe it has a battery inside that is dead?


Yes, that was my first thought.

So I will try to take it apart, if I dare...


Blue Hell wrote:
And welcome to the forum.


Thanks!
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2012 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

RoyleSonanders wrote:
So I will try to take it apart, if I dare...


Sounds like a good plan to me!

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 6:26 am    Post subject: No luck as yet Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

I opened it, replaced the battery (CR2032), it still doesn´t go on. Sad

Are there more batteries in this darling...?
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 05, 2012 1:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Try replacing the internal PSU. Capacitors are always the first port of call.

Also, is there an internal fuse? Or even an external one? Idea

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 12:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
Try replacing the internal PSU. Capacitors are always the first port of call.

Also, is there an internal fuse? Or even an external one? Idea


PSU? Capacitors? Fuses...? And I was SO proud to have changed the battery.

As you say, IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK. But I will do my best not to.

It would be good to see a picture of... what is it called? The electronic blueprint of the components. (Sorry, English is not my language.)
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Laughing Laughing Laughing

"BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN!!!"

Your English is fine btw. Made me laugh!! Very Happy

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

BTW, have tried just contacting Waldorf themselves?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 2:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

v-un-v wrote:
BTW, have tried just contacting Waldorf themselves?


why? there's really no need to do that i believe.

if your fuse is gone, it's gone for a reason, probably your dried out power supply capacitors are giving you a short circuit, so changing the fuse will just blow another...
this is the most common problem with synths that haven't been switched on for years...
you could change the caps yourself, you could get it going in an hour with the right spare parts ((new caps, and probably decoupling tantalums aswell), and a bit of soldiering, but you could also make a braindead blown up synth easily if you are not careful, and you don't know exactly what you are doing. so what i'd do if i were you, find a simple electronic guy around there, and ask him to take a look at it, it's common electronics inside, easy to fix.

imho, changing the battery was also a stupid idea (sorry Jan! Very Happy), you just got rid of all your patches in the memory, and the synth is still not going, is it?

find a local service guy! tell him to take a look at the psu!
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 3:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

RoyleSonanders wrote:

It would be good to see a picture of... what is it called? The electronic blueprint of the components. (Sorry, English is not my language.)


schematics?
you mean the waldorf microwave service manual?

here ya go: Very Happy

other than this, i wouldn't really poke inside if i were you, you can kill really expensive parts...

good luck with this! such a wonderful beast, the first microwave, i sold mine and will always painfully regret it...


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 6:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

drapdap wrote:
imho, changing the battery was also a stupid idea (sorry Jan! Very Happy), you just got rid of all your patches in the memory, and the synth is still not going, is it?


If you put it like that, yeah it was stupid Embarassed Otoh, lost patches sounds like a good idea actually Shocked Laughing

Anyway, someone had to say something to get the thread going I guess Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 06, 2012 9:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Ok, so I probably lost my patches but I doubt I had anything much more fancy than factory settings. And new sounds can be input throught MIDI, no?

Will stop tinkering then and consult an electrician. My biggest hurdle was actually to loosen a really tight screw...

Any digital editor(s) for the Microwave?
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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Apologies Jan!

you know i cherish you, you are one of the smartest, delighted people on e-m, i just thought it was not such a good idea, i would hate to loose my wavetables...

i'm not aware of any good editor for this synth, but it's controls are mostly cc's, i'd take a look at the waldorf ftp archive here on em, i have a microwave II nowdays, and it's different, so i can't help, google is your friend here...

hope you can find somebody who can fix it for you...

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 08, 2012 7:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

drapdap wrote:
[...]i just thought it was not such a good idea[...]


And rightly so ... if it would have been my own synth I'd have gotten the DMM out to see what was going on ... find a service manual etc. Remote advice on hardware issues is a bit of a hairy thing ...

Anyway, me too I hope it'll be fixed soon!

And thank you for the kind words drapdap.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Took it to the repair-man. He changed the broken fuse, it worked for an hour or so (display blank, though), then it gave up again.

So it is in the repairman´s hands now.

Wonder how I can get the patches (and the display) back. Midi?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote  Mark this post and the followings unread

Bad news from the repairman.

Forgive me for being un-specific, but I do not know the technical terms and when I hear them just once, forget them...

Anyway, he said he had changed two things in the synth (on the upper right if you have the display towards you), but then there was a short circuit (?) and now the transformer (the bulky thing at the back) was broken as well.

So a new transformer is needed, and where to get it? Might have to contact Germany.
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