Saturday, February 7, 2009

Restoration: Ace Tone Rhythm Ace FR-1



Just bought this from Ebay (UK) for about £50, with some known faults. Powers up and plays, but slowest tempo is very fast. Also a lot of audio hum.

On opening up, I discover it is metal framed, but not earthed. The mains cable doesn't even have an earth wire!

So, first two jobs: (1) Replace mains cable with an earthed one and create earth point. (2) Replace electrolytic capacitors on control board (seems like most likely cause of tempo problems).

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