Troubleshooting a Fender Rhodes Amplifier

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Hi Larin Parker for Expert Village and we're looking at some of the more common problems that happen with audio equipment, especially synthesizers and amplifiers and vintage equipment. Inside of this Lynn drum machine, there?s so many components, it's really easy to get distracted by how complex this machine is. Really the most common stuff you can usually diagnose with your eyes as well. When I first acquired this machine there were examples of loose connectors like this connector that's connected up right here, if it were to be a sque like this, they have a way of working their way out then that's something that's pretty easy to see. In any sort of professional electronics to it's unlikely that you would ever see just a bare wire sticking, sticking somewhere. If you look in and you see a bare wire, the goal is probably going to be finding out where that wire came from and wherever there is a wire just lying loose like this, you can usually find the place that it will fit. Engineers are pretty good at designing these things, here you can see written up on the side, that it's suppose to go up and usually its pretty evident where you need to plug things back in. Likewise if you have one of these potentiometers or a chip that is coming loose, you'll be able to see corrosion around it and you'll even be able to pull on it and it'll just pop out of the circuit board instead of ordinarily staying there quite put. Likewise these integrated circuits that fit into sockets might be dislodged a little bit, slightly a sque instead of completely straight. If you see that you'd want to go in there and just gently put that back into place and press it into the socket. This type of socket has a lock on it. Most of them don't, they just require pressure but over the years things like that can tend to wear down. Those are the things that I generally look for and then also just your connectors, anything that?s metal should be a little bit shiny. If you see brown, if you see obvious corrosion then that?s the point to start cleaning and check out.

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