Repairing Tascam FW1884 control surface

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The Tascam FW 1884 is a firewire control surface with 9 motorized faders and an audio interface with quite impressive specs for its time (18 audio in, 4midi I/O).
It's not small by modern standards and weighs a ton.
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I bought busted FW1884 with intentions to repair, narrowed it to that the firewire cable was plugged in upside down and the chip burnt out. The only place I can find the firewire chip is 1 guy in the states with the postage making it basically 4 times the price of the original part.

If that fails I will either sell the motorized faders or convert into motor fader surface on my of own,
plenty of insiparation on midibox/ucapps (http://www.ucapps.de) although ucapps is a bit dated at this stage and different approach (eg. via Pi or Arduino) may be more suitable in regards to compatibility, I feel more close to the ucapps projects.
Will see how it goes. If it that fails I may just shell out for for Icon platform M or similar.
Will keep you posted, also with pictures and all.

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This Sounds very interesting, Since I have 3 of Those Tascam Fw 1884 and one got fried too with a upside down FireWire cabel (all lights are on Exepte FireWire and Stop are blinking) please keep me up to date about your Projekt since i have something Similar in mind . Please if you Managed the repair Send me a howto thank you

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Sending anything from America is driving the price high for the shipping. You should combine and get two sent to Europe…
Btw. a friend of mine also has inherited one from her husband. She would be willing to sell it…

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