Replaing Emax II power supply

Hello, sorry for starting a new thread, but I tried a search and couldn't find much, so...

Someone is selling a real cheap Emax II which is in great shape but the power supply is messed up. When it turns on it just makes a clicking noise.

Does any one know where I can get parts for one of these or any where on the east coast that I can get it serviced? Or is the cost rediculous to get it fixed and make it probably not worth it?

Thanks!

Try the emax yahoo groups list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emax). There's EPR electonics in Florida. Don't know of any other places that specialize in EMU, but if its strictly a power supply issue, then most any tech should be able to fix it.

The risk is that its more than just the power supply, and since the unit is so old, some replacement parts are just going to be impossible to find.

Thanks for the information, I didn't find much there yet but will keep looking around the site. A guy on Craigslist is selling the Emax for $50, said he had 2 of them and pulled the working power supply out of this one to put in the other so this one now has the broken power supply. If that is the truth it seems like a good deal and could be worth the risk. I don't really need it but like the sound and want to give it a try, but don't need a heavy ass keyboard shaped paperweight.

it's not that hard to find spare parts for the psu.
the old emu's had ordinary units.

btw my emax I had the same problem and i implanted a mpc 2000 power supply.
works perfect!

here's a http://www.frtg.de/privat/emax/emax.htm to a german site.
he took a pc-psu.

good luck

fixing a power supply should be pretty easy. any tech should be able do it, you won't need an emu specialist.

beach_break wrote:fixing a power supply should be pretty easy. any tech should be able do it, you won't need an emu specialist.

Damn that sounds familiar. Hmmm...

mp3 wrote:

beach_break wrote:fixing a power supply should be pretty easy. any tech should be able do it, you won't need an emu specialist.

Damn that sounds familiar. Hmmm...

sorry for the echo. it's a long way away for here.

Clicking and going on and off. My answer is late but typically if those cylindrical electrolite capacitors are a bit bulgy on the top (some have a cross carved thats normal) then that's the usual symptom: clicking on and off. Replace them. Also watch for that resistor that's lying next to them. It's value is obscure but at the moment mines is replaced together with those capacitors and it's still clicking. By the end of the weekend I should know more. I'm the DIY.