Re: Defining "pro"

[Travis Hartnett <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

Is it one of the Oberheim models?  I believe those ran hotter (mine
certainly did).  I sent my oldest one in for a tuneup to Shane, and as
I recall he ran down a list of improvements that had been made in the
design over the years which he could retrofit, one of which was
cooler-running power supply.  I'd run a fan on the thing and see if
still malfunctions after five or six hours.

I was thinking about how one could beef up the edp the other day, but
it seemed you'd have to know what tends to break.  It seems that the
SIMMS can be vibrated loose over time, hence the frequent advice to
reseat them whien wacky behavior appears, and there's the thermal
thing, but other than perhaps putting rubber shockmounts on the
mounting posts for the board, nothing immediatley comes to mind.  If I
recall correctly, the rear connector jacks are soldered to the PCB,
but there is strain relief from the mounting nuts so I'm not sure
there's much to be done there.  Again, a breakdown of what fails is
needed to make it more roadworthy.

And  yes,  it's never seemed that the EDP was Gibson's highest priority.

TravisH

On 10/18/05, monk <monk@fuse.net> wrote:
>
> On Oct 18, 2005, at 4:12 PM, Travis Hartnett wrote:
>
> > Any problem that only manifests itself after it's been on for five or
> > six hours sounds thermal related.  Is it in a rack, and how warm is
> > the gear around the EDP?
>
> yeah, i get it. it is probably a thermal problem.  but my point is that
> in ten years of use my pcm-70 has never done that, my other "pro" gear
> has been far more reliable; and when it isn't, the company helps me.
> that wasn't my experience with gibson.
>
> for the record it's in the top of a mesa-boogie shock rack (which has
> lots of space around it) with two empty rack spaces above it. below it
> is.. various things.. a pcm-70, a flash switcher.. but it exhibits this
> behaviour on a table-top as well.
>