After all I thought it couldn´t be worse than the Opera-6 fix. But I was determined to make it fully operable again. I purchaised such a unit with the risk of not knowing the exact amount of dammage it had taken. If you see a Poly-61 on the used market described as ‘functional’ but ‘holding a steady tone’ it´s most likely a battery dammage. The symptoms depend a little on how the synth has been stored and therefore how the acid flowes across the board. ![]() ![]() The device starts acting weird up to doing nothing at all soundwise. While leaking, the battery may still provide enough power to retain memory while starting to damage the PCB area around it. The problem for most owners without knowledge of the technicalities is that the symptoms come on slowly and do not neccessarily hint at memory. ![]() Like some other 80´s polysynths with memory, many of today´s Poly-61s suffer from battery leakage.
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