Moog 911 EG mistery!

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zarone
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Moog 911 EG mistery!

Post by zarone » Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:59 am

Hi all
I am calibrating my Moog 55. One of the 8 EGs is completely different from the usual ones. It is a very early version, with more components / caps, no trimpots at all, no possibility of calibrating offsets, glitches etc. It is dated May 3 1968 on the yellow tag. I have not found any clue or schematics about it...
The problem is, it does not work properly: with all of the pots counterclockwise, at the minimum, the sustain works but there is asmall amount of slow attack. When I raise the attack pot (T1) until 2 ms, the envelope returns snappy, but the sustain is steady at the maximum. At higher values of the T1, the attack works as it should.
Any help is appreciated

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Kevin Lightner
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Re: Moog 911 EG mistery!

Post by Kevin Lightner » Sat Oct 13, 2012 12:31 pm

I first replied to ask if there were 100 ohm resistors inline with the pots for times (A,D,R), but in looking at your photo, I think there are.

You might check to see if the attack pot is ok by shorting it with a jumper or using an ohm meter.
Other than that, you might consider adding the 3 trimmers later models have.
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Re: Moog 911 EG mistery!

Post by thealien666 » Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:16 pm

Sounds like maybe a case of a dirty/worn Attack Allen-Bradley pots near, or at minimum position (easily checked with Kevin's suggestion of shorting out the pot) ?
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Re: Moog 911 EG mistery!

Post by zarone » Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:11 am

Kevin,
I shorted the T1 pot, but nothing changes.
I guess something was changed (the Philips cap is not original, IMO) but without a schematic diagram it is very difficult to understand what...

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