FC300 - Replacement parts for FC-300?

Started by germanicus, May 22, 2013, 12:20:12 AM

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germanicus

A few years ago when I would gig with the fc300 and vg99, a certain klutz stepped on and smashed the neutrik connector when it was connected to the fc300, cracking the receiving port housing and made it impossible to disconnect the cable. I dealt with it (it worked fine still, I just couldn't take the plug out), but recently Im using the fc300 with the tripleplay and having the tangle of Ethernet chord hanging out the fc300 isn't practical. I disconnected the small connector board inside and was able to remove the broken remains of the connector housing, but I now need a new 'Roland fc-300 RRC2 Board" and the housing it connects to on the chasis which receives the neutrik cable.

Anyone know a roland parts supplier online? I can install it easily myself and would rather not ship it off to an authorized repair center if possible. 
My albums done with modeling/guitar synth at http://music.steamtheory.com

JTV69/59P/Godin LGXT/Multiac ACS/Variax 700 AC
Helix/FTP/GP10/VG99/SY1000
Traynor k4

germanicus

Ugh...
According to Roland US customer service they no longer make the small rrc2 Board. Its now all integrated on the main board. So, I need to pay $210 for a new main board assembly if I want Sysex mode again with my vg99.

My albums done with modeling/guitar synth at http://music.steamtheory.com

JTV69/59P/Godin LGXT/Multiac ACS/Variax 700 AC
Helix/FTP/GP10/VG99/SY1000
Traynor k4

Elantric

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Then you do not want to hear what a typical VG-99 repair costs at your Roland Repair Center
(I bought a used VG-99 four years ago for $100, because it has an intermittent noise due to a poor solder joint under a Ball Grid Array DSP, and Roland US quoted $900 for a repair to the former owner) 

(hint - the X-Box heat gun BGA IC fix was the solution)
http://hackaday.com/2011/02/24/heat-gun-gpu-reflow-fixes-laptop/




I find it ridiculous that today even at the main Roland US Corporate headquarters in LA, they still do not own a Surface Mount Rework station in the repair department to make basic defective IC swaps on the PC board.
http://www.zeph.com/zt-7.htm


Not to sound like a cranky old man, but the Electronics repair industry today has really been dumbed down, reduced to swapping entire motherboards, and only pre-requisite to get a job as an electronics   repair technician is a Newegg receipt as proof that you built your last Windows PC. Soldering skills are no longer necessary, and might be a liability, since making an actual PC board repair by reading schematics,  troubleshooting and changing out a few bad internal components is actually frowned upon, since its far more profitable to swap out a $850 motherboard, than make actual repairs on the existing PC board by swapping out a few bad jacks, capacitors, and resistors and charge $150 for 2 hours labor)   

cell7

@germanicus - you must be the first person to actually damage an FC300... those things are tanks!
Couldn't you look at it another way - cut the cable at a few inches and wire a female connector to it? You will still get some hanging extra, but not like a 20ft ethernet mess.