What's wrong with my CZ-101!!??
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- Tyler2000
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What's wrong with my CZ-101!!??
I just played a show and when I brought it home and hooked it up, not 2 hours later, it wouldn't turn on. I tried two different power supplies since the one I've been using is kind of sketchy. No luck. When I hit the power the LEDs will light for a split second, but that's all. The backup battery may have been dying before because it's lost my patches before, but I keep it plugged in all the time. I just don't know what the h**l the problem is. It worked flawlessly durning the show. Maybe the power jack is loose? It feels a bit loose, but how could it have gotten looser between playing the show and going home. Grrr. I'm gona kill myself if it's actually broken.
PLEASE HELP.
-tyler
PLEASE HELP.
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so what do I put down here now?
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You should check the APO circuit and the main switch.
When I bought my CZ1000, main swich was dirty and synth tended to do strange things.
APO turns off the keyboard after a while without being played. If it is damaged, then some problems could happen.
When I bought my CZ1000, main swich was dirty and synth tended to do strange things.
APO turns off the keyboard after a while without being played. If it is damaged, then some problems could happen.
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CZ-101s have various power supply issues, because of the auto power off and the batteries. The socket is soldered to the board so is easily damaged. Using a dodgy PSU doesn't help- you may have damaged one of the many components in the PSU section.
Fairly easy to repair if you know a decent tech. Cheap to replace too. I got my CZ-1 for less than what I originally payed for the 101.
Fairly easy to repair if you know a decent tech. Cheap to replace too. I got my CZ-1 for less than what I originally payed for the 101.
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I'll check the looseness of the jack on the inside. The funny thing is, I don't think my cz HAS a power off. I've left it on for quite a while before, and if the button is pressed in the keyboard is on. I popped my battery compartment open, but it apears to be messed up. I'll try putting batt.s in later, but if it doesn't work I can pop it open and attach an external to the battery compartments leads.
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so you say the original power supply was unreliable....
i think the replacement power supplies you're using just arent fitting tightly enough. first plug it in and push the connector side of the power supply plug down and see if that helps.
or bring it to radio shack and check it with one of their power supplies and plug adapters.
i believe the specs are
9 volt DC. negative tip. 850 mA.
good luck!
mini
i think the replacement power supplies you're using just arent fitting tightly enough. first plug it in and push the connector side of the power supply plug down and see if that helps.
or bring it to radio shack and check it with one of their power supplies and plug adapters.
i believe the specs are
9 volt DC. negative tip. 850 mA.
good luck!
mini
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Sounds about right, but definitely double- and triple-check that, because a lot of the Casio minikeys are actually 7.5V DC, rather than 9.minime123 wrote:i believe the specs are
9 volt DC. negative tip. 850 mA.
In agreement with others above, I reckon the first thing to do would be to try it out with batteries.
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I've never had an original power supply for it. It came with an emmerson power supply, which only sketchy becasue it's case is being held shut with electrical tape. I tested it with a multi-power supply so it should have been fine. I've never put batteries in it before, so that doesn't sound right.Alex E wrote:My casio CZ-1000 can't work with any AC adptor other than the Casio AD-5U. Maybe its the same with the CZ-101. Also, I'm pretty sure the user-programmable patches are held with the regular batteries you can put into the board.
I need to buy to some "d" cells before I can test it. God, I hope it's okay.
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Well, does the Emerson power supply fit snugly into the jack? The reason why the AD-5U was the only AD adaptor I could use was because it fit tightly into the jack. Ironically, that power supply was faulty, so I run mine off of batteries. My MC-303 power supply and any equivalent power supplies I had all worked with it, but they didn't fit into the jack well, and were intermittent.Tyler2000 wrote:I've never had an original power supply for it. It came with an emmerson power supply, which only sketchy becasue it's case is being held shut with electrical tape. I tested it with a multi-power supply so it should have been fine. I've never put batteries in it before, so that doesn't sound right.Alex E wrote:My casio CZ-1000 can't work with any AC adptor other than the Casio AD-5U. Maybe its the same with the CZ-101. Also, I'm pretty sure the user-programmable patches are held with the regular batteries you can put into the board.
I need to buy to some "d" cells before I can test it. God, I hope it's okay.
Well, I hope the batteries help.
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Remember that my APO relay was crazy and even sometimes my synth switched off itself. After several checks, I just cleaned the Power ON OFF switch. Try to do it, nothing to loose.Tyler2000 wrote:Well, I tested with batteries, which likely leaves one option. Busted APO. How does one go about fixing thatt? Could it be something else?
Open the keyb (take care about wires, casio CZ series are really cheap-wired) and spray with contact cleaner the switch.
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