--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , Sean Williams <sean@...> wrote:

>
> If it's the older version it would have started spewing out HORRIBLE
> stinking plumes of smoke from a melted mains smoothing capacitor by
> now and leaked hideous brown gunk over the inside of the back panel!

That problem actually relates to the IEC power inlet connector on the
backplate, rather than the power supply itself, and could possible
affect really old cases (like 10 years or so). I think these older
cases are identified by the on/off switch being separate from the inlet
connector itself; the filter in the inlet sometimes seems to go bad,
hence the horrid sticky brown goo it may exude. The filter wasn't
strictly necessary, and so later ones simply don't have it, and also
have the switch integral with the connector.

I bought a second-hand case exhibiting these symptoms - with care it is
possible to find a connector which is almost a 'drop in' replacement
(and considerably cheaper than a new one with the filter...

Tim