Thank you Dieter, I have emailed Matthias.
 Richard
 On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:07 AM, <
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> wrote:
 >> My A-190-1 has stopped working. It seems to be sending a constant
 >> gate signal and not communicating with midi. Seems to be since I
 >> removed the A-140 (the power was off!!!!!)
 >>
 >> Tried reseting but no dice. Oh and the reset and gate LED's are
 >> constantly on
 >>
 >> Any suggestions
 >>
 >> Cheers,
 >> Richard
 >
 > Please contact our A-190-1 specialist Matthias Marass
 > (keyboards-at-doepfer-dot-de). He is responsible for service and repairs of
 > the A-190-1. I'm not very familiar with the A-190-1 (no analog circuits, too
 > much digital :-)
 >
 > I only know that there is one thing that happens now and then to A-190-1. If
 > the A-190-1 itself or even one of the other modules on the A-100 bus is
 > connected in the wrong way to the bus (vertical displacement) it may happen
 > that the +12V and +5V are shortened and the +5V are overwritten by the +12V
 > after power on. This will destroy the A-190-1 (or any other module that
 > requires +5V) because the +5V circuit is powered with +12V. So you should be
 > careful (as usual) when installing or changing modules to the bus board as
 > described in the user's manual (pages 4 and 5 in the introduction).
 >
 > Best wishes
 > Dieter Doepfer
 >
 >
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