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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: fahrwestbass on May 01, 2024, 11:42:05 AM

Title: Elan plus, one pickup has low gain
Post by: fahrwestbass on May 01, 2024, 11:42:05 AM

For quite some time my '90 Elan (with Elan plus electronics) has had very low output from the bridge pickup. I did some troubleshooting and it seems that the pickup is fine, the bridge pickup gain circuit is the problem. That's likely a good thing. The only active component I can see is a 1988 vintage Harris Op Amp, A3-5144-5. I'm wondering if these parts are available from Alembic or elsewhere?

Title: Re: Elan plus, one pickup has low gain
Post by: mica on May 01, 2024, 12:58:37 PM

We would now use a TLE2024 for the opamp, but we now offer a small circuit card that plugs in the same socket that has two 2022 ICs (works the same as one 2024),  and a few other parts for RF filtering. You can contact me by phone or email to order either one.

The 2022/2024 IC are also much lower drain. in 1990 the low drain chips were still too noisy. These work well and extend the battery life from about a month to 6-12 months.