By v00d00ppl
Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:50 pm
I can verify that some of the last reissues had HD floppy drives. My 1997 takes HD floppies without the tape trick.
Neve 5254, MPC Studio, iMac Pro.
Matriks wrote:invhide wrote: The thing is that I got to find someone I trust that can service my Sp here in Switzerland..
That's a hard one around here
Maybe you can contact Forum member Jibber, he knows some address(es)... Eventually he helps you out..
If it's just about soldering some parts I can do it for you.
Horseclick wrote:i phoned my tech this is what he said.
all sp's sp12 sp1200 grey and sp1200 black shipped with lcd screen with backlights Sp12/sp1200 grey shipped with the same display black reissue e-mu couldnt source the same ones so had to build a small circuit board to accommodate the newer screen with the dual row of pins on the side of the display.
all the front panel circuit boards shipped with inverters to power the el foil its a small black box on rear of the front panel.
so perhaps your el foil needs replacing to light up your current screen he said its only 2 wires to do that, or your inverter is dead which is not needed if your going to go ahead and install a vfd.
good luck brother
v00d00ppl wrote:I can verify that some of the last reissues had HD floppy drives. My 1997 takes HD floppies without the tape trick.
Dj Khayos wrote:v00d00ppl wrote:I can verify that some of the last reissues had HD floppy drives. My 1997 takes HD floppies without the tape trick.
The last(all?) reissues indeed had HD floppy drives, mine did NOT read/write HD disks without the disk taping trick, so I did a simple mod to the diskdrive by just removing the DD/HD switch and soldering together the two connections.
This works on the Ensoniq EPS16+ that has HD drive too.
WASKMUSIC wrote:the display looks nice dude! can someone share a link to the noritake display? in europe would be dope, if not, some other links?
what you've got to do to install it? soldering shouldnt be a problem! i got the grey OG SP1200.
thanks!
WASKMUSIC wrote:hey man, ordered a display today.
noritake cu16025-uw2j, should be the right one with a perfect fitting.
where you take the 5v+ and - from? any info on that?
so, the noritake displays can use some sort of colourfilters on top. did you use one or is it just the screen you installed?
looking ahead for some more info on that vfd display from you.
mine should be here in the next days/weeks.
thanks for giving me some answers. btw, could you take a picture from the inside with the vfd installed? thanks bro
Low Hiss wrote:I recently installed a blue on black LED display and mounted a contrast pot for it at the back of my black SP.
Looks dope and the knob is a cool little mod to have, I can read my display from pretty much any angle by adjusting the contrast.
Pictures here: http://imgur.com/a/HUraC
Video of the contrast pot in action: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCFi-mskiUT/