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Pleiades Lithium Battery Conversion for the Simmons SDS7

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Pleiades Lithium Battery Conversion for the Simmons SDS7
Product Details

Pleiades offers a simple solution to replacing the Ni-Cd battery in the Simmons SDS7 with a more reliable lithium type cell. In fact, Pleiades holds two AA batteries connected in parallel, which means that when you need to change your batteries, so long as they're not totally depleted, changing one at a time means that you won't wipe your SDS7's memory and so, lose all of your patches.

Pleiades also makes the installation of the Tubbutec uniPulse MIDi to trigger adapter into the Simmons SDS7, a breeze.

As with all my products, Pleiades doesn't require any holes to be drilled or any other drastic modifications to be made to your vintage equipment. Pleiades occupies a spare voice module slot (preferably slot 12) in your SDS7. The corresponding pad trigger input which is then redundant, is used for MIDI IN.

Pleiades is fully compatible with my Dark Matter replacement power supply for the Simmons SDS7. Pleiades can be used in place of Dark Matter battery-board, just by swapping one connection.

IMPORTANT: Tubbutec uniPulse is NOT included with Pleiades. Please purchase Tubbutec products here.

When ordering uniPulse from the Tubbutec website, ensure you request the uniPulse Pleiades kit comprising the following items:

  • 1 x uniPulse PCB.
  • 26-way IDC cable with IDC housings at both ends (approx. 30cm).
  • 1 x MIDI header with red and black wires with no 5-way DIN socket (approx. 70 cm).

Pleiades is made locally here in the United Kingdom. In fact, it's made a few miles away from the old Simmons factory where I used to work, in St. Albans, Hertfordshire.

Pleiades is NOT supplied with batteries. For best results, I recommend 2 x SAFT 14500 or EEMB ER14505 Li-SOCI2 batteries.