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Groovadile

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Did I just fry my Keystep? :(
« on: February 08, 2019, 10:09:06 pm »
Please go easy on me, I usually know what I am doing. This time just wasn't thinking. Before noticing that Keystep takes center-positive psu's, I plugged a center-negative one to it. DId I just destroy the poor thing? Is there any hope?

Thank you very much in advance,

MIke

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Re: Did I just fry my Keystep? :(
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2019, 04:57:01 am »
I dunno if there is any reverse polarity protection on the Keystep.  Does it work when you use the correct polarity psu plug or power it via USB?
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Re: Did I just fry my Keystep? :(
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2019, 10:11:48 am »
No, sadly it doesn't. I will try to return it (being honest with what I did), if it has any protection, then they should accept it. I was just thinking that I might be doing something wrong by not flipping a switch to turn it on, or something, but I guess it's just broken.

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Re: Did I just fry my Keystep? :(
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2019, 11:35:58 pm »
I think because centre-positive is by far the most common and 'default' they didn't bother including reverse polarity protection, sadly.
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