Virus surgery: Re-Potting 101 (warning - many photos!)

[nutrinoland]

Originally Posted by Splat!

Toothpicks are what give the Virus that analog character

Yoo knowz I iz right!

hahah...

lolz

[synthsonix]

Top surgery master-class... !!!!!
Timo, you must be german, right?

[Timo]

Originally Posted by synthsonix

Top surgery master-class... !!!!!
Timo, you must be german, right?

English/British. Although I suppose we're all from German stock originally. Anglo-saxons and all that.

[W.C. Fields]

Has anyone been able to match up the Pots to anything in the Mouser/Digikey catalogs?

[Fordy]

Nice one, it's always interesting to see whats under the hood. Mind you , only 1 bag of mini eggs? Mmmmmm need more than one lol

[wavesinspace]

what is the model number of the alps pot?

I think these are the same ones in the virus ti?

looking for a usa source preferably here in california?

tia

[wavesinspace]

i need a usa source preferably here in california

[Ashe35]

I just bought an Indigo with this problem. The previous owner had been going to fix it, but decided to sell it instead. He had already communicates with Access and they had invoices him- and the part number is on the invoice. The part number on that invoice is RK11K1140A23 which appears to be a standard part available through Mouser.

This thread should be stickied.

[subblack]

Regarding those toothpicks...I would not be in any way surprised if it came that way from Access. I had to send my BRAND NEW virus ti back 5 times before I got one that *kind of* worked. Pitch bend and mod wheel are still flakey, so I just disconnected them.

[Timo]

About the pots...

Here was my original thread, when I was trying to find the pots used (before contacting Access' hardware branch to obtain them).

http://infekted.org/virus/showthread.php?t=24791

http://SynthesizerService.de stated the pots are 10K Ohm linear.

These are easy to find, but ones with the same spindle dimensions as the Virus uses are not. The Virus pots have spindles that are exceptionally short.



Above shows the measurements of a general potentiometer spindle.

However, for the Virus, the 'Z' measurement is 0mm (it sits flush with the top of the nut), and the 'Y' measurement is much smaller than usual. So an off-the-shelf 6-legged, 10KOhm vertical pot like this, for example...



... (the one on the right), or the one you pointed to in Mouser (well, at least the graphic of it), wouldn't be any good, as the knob would be sticking out by a mile. At the same time you don't want the 'Y' measurement to be too small, or the bottom of the rubber knob will chafe the surface.