SSL 4000 E series Console, Restoration and Chop down Project

[zebra50]

Awesome project and great photos!

Please treat your mate Si to a pair of goggles to match his ear defenders and angle grinder! Those things scare the crap out of me.

8).

 

[sintech]

Todays progress: Back as a 4024

 

[sintech]

On the bottom of the 651, I have homes for all the connectors and ribbons, apart from one marked: S93E any ideas guy's?  8)

 

[Walrus]

In my old manual, S93E is listed as...

82E113 Floppy Disk Front Panel
82E114 Floppy Disk Rear Panel

Pin No    Description
1            Left Unit "R"
2            Right Unit "R"
3            +24 Volt Return
4            +24 Volts
5            +5 Volts Return
6            +5 Volts Return
7            Run Lamp II
8            Run Lamp I
9            System Reset
10          Not Used

Don't think your setup will need it.

 

[sintech]

Kevin, brilliant, thanks for solving that mystery

 

[nielsk]

1st suggestion, get rid of the plasma meters & put in VUs. The plasma meters inject noise into the mix buss, and are expensive & a PIA to keep working. It is exciting when they smoke, though :
Why did you solder links to bypass the computer? All you need to do is plug in jumpers, then it can easily be reverted if ever required. I would suggest reversing this change.
If there is a TR computer (a 2 card sub computer in the main frame) I have a client in desperate need of one...

 

[Igor]

Well, mail did'nt passed (maybe due to file size), the schems will be here for about a month, feel free to download:
http://ij-audio.com/downloads/ssl_bargraph_metering_sys.rar

 

[sintech]

Thanks Igor

 

[sintech]

4024E as of this morning

 

[MikeClev]

She's a beaut!

 

[paulfergy]

Thanks for sharing this project Sintech, it is great to see such detailed photos of a 4k!

 

[sintech]

More bad caps, but it's a breeze to change caps being so modular

Wiring one of the spare buckets

Allen&Heath switch mode console supply feeding the bucket +/- 18v , an extra 7v power supply is tied to the +18v subtracting, to give +11v on it's common, making the logic Hi (+18v) and logic low (+11v) states

Power!!!

 

[Walrus]

What's happened to the computer rack.....??

 

[nielsk]

You will notice the the resistor next to the burnt cap in your photo is toast, looks like the fusing resistor. This means there is a short on the card, probably not the burnt looking cap...

 

[3nity]

i was about to point that too..

 

[Gareth Connor]

Nice project, Sintech. This is a project that I follow with interest.
My partners and I do similar stuff to Neve and Calrec consoles.

 

[TapeOpAl]

Any more updates Sintech? You finished now?

This project is something I've considered for a while now and your report is simultaneously encouraging and off-putting!

 

[sintech]

Hi, yeah, it's all done, here's some more pic's of how it all looked in the end.

Light portable stand

D-subs

More Recapping

Power up test

Master Status

4002E!!

First 8 bucket done

Self Etch  Cue Amp card

The 24

Second Bucket

 

[acoustix]

 

[Igor]

Ahm.. Errrrr..  Really good roboporn. My hand nervously moving!!!!!!