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Posted by: DEVIOUS Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:37

Hello there,

I have just brought a microkorg back from Japan and, upon arrival, overly excited to use it, I plugged it in to my 240V UK socket using a shaving plug adaptor (Japan's voltage is 100-110V). Stupid I know. There was a spark and a little smoke and now the microkorg only briefly flashes the audio in and audio out leds when plugged in with a dedicated voltage converter.

What I want to know is, have I completely destroyed my microkorg, or is it easily repairable? What 'blows' when there is too much voltage forced into the machine?

Should I begin crying and looking for alternatives?

I tried to contact Korg, but their email website is down (how bad is that?). I will phone them in due course but the premium rate number deterred me and I figured that this website always provides better advice anyway!

Help!

D.

Posted by: lepetitmartien Wed 28 Sep 2005, 02:00

It depends all on how the DC input (I guess it's DC) is protected.

- There may be a fuse, then, you can hope it's only it.
- If there's no fuse, it may be some chips like a voltage regulator at least which is blown, anyway it can have gone further too.

As I don't have the experience of opening one, I can't tell you wich and if it's easy to do, be it the opening or the repair.

Now the good thing is usually the damage is strictly localized on a few components, so it's not as if lightning had struck

Posted by: DEVIOUS Thu 29 Sep 2005, 01:28

Thank you for that.

Quite reassuring. I think I will do a bit of research, try and get onto Korg and report back!

Fingers crossed. I really can't afford a new one!

D.

Posted by: PunkasFuck Fri 4 Nov 2005, 01:22

Hey Same problem, did you figure out how to fix it?

Just got this microkorg, and it smells of burnt electronics, when I try it with batteries all I get is the input 1 input 2 lights then nothing.

PLEASE any help on how to fix is apreciated. Thanks