Korg DS-8 Battery Replacement – part 2

Here we have the new battery ready to fit. The old one came out easily with a solder sucker:

Top view of board – battery in:

Then put the PCB back into the keyboard. As mentioned, all the connectors are different so you can’t get them wrong:

Put all the screws back in, and power up – it may well take a while to initialise as the RAM is full of garbage at this point. All the factory patches have gone – which is something I need to invesgate restoring, but as I use it only as a MIDI controller no great rush. The main thing is that the keyboard now remembers its settings.

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One Response to “Korg DS-8 Battery Replacement – part 2”

Jeff Sepeta Says:
August 12, 2011 at 2:26 pm | Reply
I sell kits of sounds to fix over 100 models of synth, including the DS-8. Check out my website and I can help you reload the factory sounds, or load up fresh sounds you’ve never heard before.