Quasimidi Sirius Repair

Quasimidi Sirius Repair

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Quasimidi Sirius Repair:

Quasimidi sirius repair – a broken keystop and non functioning keys, sequencer issues, sticky buttons, this ended up as a complete overhaul.

We found gaffa tape that had dried out and left a mess over the battery and ribbon cables, many minor issues that needed sorting out as shown below.

The unit had been working off a 9V 1A power brick which seemed rather odd as the internal 5V regulator should see at least 10V to operate correctly. Anyhow this was replaced after bench power testing had it running on less than 9V ?

Once the majority of the works were completed it seemed that the presets and sequencer all worked fine. However, in actuality most of the potentiometers were not providing stable reference values and so sounds were crashing, values were jumping all over the place and once these were replaced it suddenly became this incredible synthesiser again.

Values could be adjusted as intended and held stable.

This thing is a small beast monster of a synth.

quasimidi sirius bent eprom leg
The EPROM had a bent leg
quasimidi sirius key removal to access contacts
Keys removed to access contact strip
quasimidi sirius internal rust needing treatment
Internal chassis rust needing treatment
quasimidi sirius gaffa tape mess
dried out gaffa tape over battery and around ribbon cables
quasimidi sirius broken key guide
broken key guide
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tact switches in Quasimidi sirius
quasimidi sirius dirty key contact strip
Quasimidi sirius dirty key contact strip
quasimidi sirius new potentiometers being installed
Quasimidi sirius new potentiometers being installed
quasimidi sirius broken key
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