{"id":8420,"date":"2006-09-05T23:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T03:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/midibox-sid-nuxx-3\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:34:49","slug":"midibox-sid-nuxx-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2006\/09\/05\/midibox-sid-nuxx-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MIDIbox SID-NUXX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, today the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/MIDIbox_SID-NUXX\">MIDIbox SID-NUXX<\/a> metal panels came in. Everything is great, except when assembling the last one &#8212; my 8580 &#8212; the external power supply dies.<\/p>\n<p>I do a bit more testing, find the PS to be giving out only a few mW, so I grab another one. That one dies.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the thing somehow has a hard short between one of the AC pins and ground. I have no idea why, unless the PCB is somehow defective, right below the switch. So, tomorrow I have to do some more digging. < sigh ><\/p>\n<p>Now, off to the post office. No, the synth kits aren&#8217;t going out tonight, but I have to send some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nuxx.net\/wiki_archive\/A\/X0xb0x\">x0xb0x<\/a> artwork to someone, and I said I&#8217;d do it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, today the MIDIbox SID-NUXX metal panels came in. Everything is great, except when assembling the last one &#8212; my 8580 &#8212; the external power supply dies. I do a bit more testing, find the PS to be giving out only a few mW, so I grab another one. That one dies. Turns out the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-making-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13209,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8420\/revisions\/13209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}