Ok, I replaced the fuse in the power plug and all is good again, but
Doug at En-port (u.s. retailer and representative) told me to use a
fast blow fuse. You say slow blow type. Anyone else have input or
know where I can find the spec I looked on the doepfer site but it
didnt' really say when I looked at the power supply manual page.
I'm going to wait until I get responses to get back to programming.
Time to watch a movie! :)
and yea. first things I did were to unplug power and patch leads...
just makes a guy panic when his favorite synth tells him NO!

thanks alot.
ben

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com , "Tim Stinchcombe <timothy@t...>"
<timothy@t...> wrote:

> Take the plug out of the back of the case. Immediately above the
> where the plug fits is where the fuse is, you'll need to lever it

out

> with a screwdriver or the like, from underneath. The fuses are not
> ordinary 13-amp plug types, but special 'time-lag' ones. (It would

be

> as well to check the one in the plug too, to see which has blown.)
> Maplin sell the time-lag ones, so I'm sorry to say you will

probably

> not get it going again straight away - use the time to try and
> establish what happened(!). If it's not an obvious wayward piece of
> metal shorting something across one of the boards, then it's hard

to

> suggest what it might be - generally all modules have short circuit
> protection built in, because the very act of inserting patch leads
> tends to short things momentarily to ground, so it's unlikely to be

a

> loose or dangling lead. You could try taking your current patch

apart

> lead-by-lead to see if you might have wired up something in a non-
> nice way (though again this Doepfer stuff seems pretty unburstable
> from that point of view, so I think this is very unlikely). The

only

> time it happened to me is when I was using it power something on a
> breadboard - I connected an op amp the wrong way - and it blew the
> fuse in short order (chip still seemed to work though!).
>
> Tim