Smokey Alesis

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I plugged my Alesis in to a power outlet in Australia and smoke began to come out of
to audio outputs. I had a power adapter and the stock power chord had the power converter, or so I was told. The Alesis does not work any more. Nothing happends. Did I fry the whole keyboard. Is there hope? Can this be fixed? Any help is appreciated. Thanks
 
Bring it into a repair shop and get an quote on fixing the damages.
 
a stock power cord's not gonna have a converter built into it.






You screwed it up pretty good I imagine.
 
How did you get it plugged in if you had the wrong cord?
 
moresound said:
How did you get it plugged in if you had the wrong cord?
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good question actually.

But one's thing's for sure. That board's fried. Smoke coming out of a keyboard is always a bad thing.
It can be fixed though. They'll just change out whatever boards in there that have burnt components on them.
 
Jammed it into the wall socket real good ..... then took a hammer to it just to make sure the connection was made! :p
 
then used the hammer to beat out the fire in the keyboard! :D
 
:laughings: I sure hope the OP/noob has as good a sense of humor as your guys!
 
Bob's right. You've fried it, but the chances are a competent tech can replace blown parts for you.
 
Lt. Bob said:
he may as well ...... first law of burnt gear ....... don't let the gear see you being weak!
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That's right! The first sign of weakness and BANG it will flame on faster than the human torch at a bad guy convention.
 
At this fellows expense, some good lessons can be learned. My favorite is when a guy sees a socket with 3 prongs and a ground (think drier or stove plug). They think that's 230 volt and proceed to cut the end of their welder/chipper/vibrator(construction not the other thing), wire it up to a new plug and voila - it blows up.

115 volt and 230 volt plugs are the same - 2 prongs and a ground. 230 volt are just shaped differently.If there are 3 prongs and a ground that's because it's dual voltage, 115 volt and 230 volt. The timer on a stove uses 115 volt, but the elements use 230 volt. They basically split the voltage down 2 lines (prongs).

So why do I bring this up? I have no idea - look something shiny - huh, what, yes, you should use a condenser mic. What were we talking about???
 
eadame77 said:
I plugged my Alesis in to a power outlet in Australia
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Where was the keyboard bought? What voltage was it built for? Does the keyboard use an external power pack or does the mains cable plug straight in? If it uses a power pack did it come with it or did you use one you had? If it come with it from another country how the hell did you plug it into an Oz power outlet?

A common problem with Alesis gear is that some of their gear uses 9 volts AC and some 9 volts DC, the power packs usually have different plugs on them so you can't mix then up, however you can't run Alesis gear using Boss power packs for example.

With luck you may have just fried a couple of caps and a resistor or 2 and a tech may be able to fix that.

alan
 
Was the smoke blue or black? If you let the blue smoke out the unit is a gonner. If it was black smoke you can pay just slightly more than the cost of a new keyboard to get it fixed.
 
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