pics of parts: inside the mpc1000

ever played the game "operation?"
i used to STOMP kids


the cover


the frame onto which all pads go


the tact switch (all small plastic buttons)


metal sheets onto which the sensors were screwed to the chasis.


the frame that held the rubber, sensor, and metal sheet together.


pressure-transdusive conductive rubber. sits above the copper coils in the next pic


front side of the sensor. the "active area." note that the coiled copper is actually 2 pieces, not touching.


backside of the sensor, where the copper coils are soldered to the sensorcables in the next pic


2 of the 16 sensor cables. these 2 pin cables just continue the path from the copper coils/conductive rubber. these plug into the pad pcb board via connectors in the next pic


one of those cables broke the fk up


these are 5 cable to pad pcb connectors. 2 pin, again. they are soldered into the next pic


front and back of the padpcb where all the resistive sensors get plugged in. i desoldered everything on the front (green) side.


this plugs into the pad pcb board and goes to the qlink slider board.


this is my first rotary encoder, which i obliterated while makign edge city doing all that os 1.07 scrolling. rediculous. i took it apart so we can study it and buy a more durable one.

cool bro.

this is an exploded stock view?

i'm not sure on what exploded stock means
but i'm not trying to sell these if that's what you're asking, this is just a kind of "public awareness" thing

Cool stuff man. Now we need a 2500 user to disect that for comparison.

cool nym, cheers.

nice

alien_brain wrote:this is an exploded stock view?

what i meant was exploded as in the parts by themselves instead of assembled.

by stock i meant that these are not pictures of your custom pad design, but indeed the list of items that come stock from akai.

thanks for clearing that up.

yeah it's exploded stock. all taken apart, desoldered, broken up.
especially that poor rotary encoder. man i used the sht out of that.

good pics nym, thanks for the tour of the secret depths of the MPC.
every update of progress on new pads makes me a little bit more happy.

oh hey, now that you have a scanner, can you do a high-res scan of the face of the mpc 1000 for the lettering? try to keep it as close to 1:1 as possible?

fanks homie.

hah sure i'll give it a shot

3 more more added (first 3 pics)

thanks man.

thats really helpfull.

no problem.
since akai doesn't want to release a service manual for the mpc1000, i figure i can start and try to make some sort of open source once