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Hey, noob here. Had a little accident and spilled about 4 spoonfulls of tea on the left side of my dw8000 today. When I turn it on it makes a strange bleep and then immediately goes into a very low volume sustain for whatever patch I have selected. Theres also considerable hiss in the high band. Everything still works fine, but the hiss and sustain wont leave! Any reccomendations or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks. - Frank

Hi Frank and welcome to VSE.

I'm a synth tech and I sometimes know what I'm talking about (when my meds are adjusted).

Ok, seriously your power supply officially hates you. If you're not familiar with electronics, don't venture there. See a tech that will clean and replace whatever components that took the blow.

I've got customers all over the world, so repairing synths from outside of Canada is second nature to me. You can ship me the board so I can fix it. I've got a battered DW8000 in the shop I currently use as a workhose. But you can see your local tech too, I won't hate you for that... for this time.

I'm definitely considering. Its also not allowing me too play more than one note at times, is this power supply related?

It sure start with the PSU. I doubt it generalized like a cancer to all the components. But a f**ked up PSU will f**ked up a synth pretty badly. You can send along the other boards too - it won't make much of a difference in the weight and cost of the shipping. This way I can revise the whole synth, if you want me too, of course.

I'll dive in my service manual to make sure there is not anything else. But I'd doubt it.

alright..where can I get some price info?

edit: nevermind, found price info on the site.

If it's just a PSU problem. The problem is solved well within an hour.

the power supply was on the opposite side of the spill tho however, so I question if its that or one of the circuit boards...

Sorry for my mildy weird replies. I am currently working on something and when I pass in from of a computer in the shop, I post a reply. So I've got 1000 on my mind right now (as usual).

Ok, recap time: Spill, left side = wheels/keys, right? Sure, this should be looked at.

Go figure why, I read "left" and thought "right"... dyslexia! My PST (Prematurely Senile Technicians) support group will like that.

Ok... I'm totally off-track. Rewind.

I'm up til 6h00am and it's 1h22am. I think I'm no good now. Tell you what, let's do this tomorrow.

You can drop me a mail, addy at the bottom of the screen.

weird, i let it sit for 30 minutes and all the functions are back to normal now haha. Thanks alot tho for your support!!

First off, sorry for last night confusion: I'm currently as busy as Ron Jeremy in a p**n convention. So many things to do and so little sleep... Anyway, you get the picture.

Actually, there's nothing to be amazed of. Electronic components are sensible to moisture/water/liquid. Obviously, I won't go into physics and chemistry lectures. You can read all about it online.

To sum it up, it was like if you have soldered wires hooking up parts that weren't normaly hooked. I had in mind that your synth was doing it when dry... But it's obvious that if it was still wet that it was to act up.

Recommendation: better clean the area.