Re: Meiko glitches...

[Denis A Nicole <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Dyke Stiles wrote:

> Greetings -
> 
> 1. Our 8-10 year old Meiko CS 1.5 has begun to turn itself off at
> apparently random times. Cycling the switch on the power supply 
> resurrects it - at least for a while. Has anyone else seen (and fixed)
> this problem???

In our (Parsys) kit there is a thermal cutout which trips if the fans
break or the filters are blocked.  Do you have cleanable air filters?

> 2. An unrelated (I hope!) matter: by some mechanism we do not 
> understand, electricity is now being delivered to our house in 
> rural Utah by Scottish Power. These people are completely unknown
> here; are they reliable???
> 
I'd worry about the voltage drop in the cable...


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