SP606 button repair coming soon
Posted: 15:32, 21 January 2014
Just wanted to let anyone who has a problems with a sp606 or maybe any other groovebox buttons that have stopped working. On the sp606 uses this http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... erprise=12 for its buttons. The actual plastic button that you press with your finger is hinged inside the groovebox and it hits the lil red button when you press it.
So on the sp606 after removing many many screws you get to the board that contains these. If you run a ohm meter across the button leads, it should lite up the meter, if not the button is toast(it's made by Panasonic what would you expect). You will have to know how to remove solder and how to solder which is really not that hard. And its all about patience. I have ordered the parts and from Roland I have went ahead and ordered the pad membrane($20), might as well replace it since I have it opened, the pads were not feeling very responsive.
This is a sp606 that I purchased of Ebay knowing that 3 pads were not working. The additional 5 buttons I didn't know they were not working until I received the unit.
I will post a video of the procedure once all the parts are in(roughly 2 weeks)
So on the sp606 after removing many many screws you get to the board that contains these. If you run a ohm meter across the button leads, it should lite up the meter, if not the button is toast(it's made by Panasonic what would you expect). You will have to know how to remove solder and how to solder which is really not that hard. And its all about patience. I have ordered the parts and from Roland I have went ahead and ordered the pad membrane($20), might as well replace it since I have it opened, the pads were not feeling very responsive.
This is a sp606 that I purchased of Ebay knowing that 3 pads were not working. The additional 5 buttons I didn't know they were not working until I received the unit.
I will post a video of the procedure once all the parts are in(roughly 2 weeks)