Tag Archives : DRB

DIL adapter - 64kbit to 16kbit chip converter March 2, 2017

Hammond XB-2 – the conclusion

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Dejan and I have finally managed to perform one last attempt to fix the Hammond XB-2. As said in my previous blog post, the XB-2 I bought had an interesting distorted sound problem. This is a video of the sound problem: We tried a number of things, including the DRAM swap. Today, we performed the SRAM swap. Since we were not able to obtain…

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The XB-2 Main Board November 29, 2016

Fixing Hammond XB-2

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A few weeks ago Dejan and I began our work on Hammond XB-2 again. The current problem can be heard here: We tracked the problem back to the static RAMs, which was also mentioned as a solution in one of the comments on this similar youtube video. We opened the keyboard and took out the main board. As you can…

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