 Microkorg Nightmare, voltage fiasco |
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 Tue 27 Sep 2005, 12:37
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From: London - UK
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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.
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 Wed 28 Sep 2005, 02:00
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Moderator In Chief (MIC)
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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 
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