Liquid spill - velocity sensors

[JOZpickels]

Hi everyone,

I have a Nord Electro 5D since maybe 2016. A few weeks ago, the hosts of a party we were playing were uncovering the keyboard after rain and one of them bumped a beer onto the keys. It did not short out, thank goodness.

At first, it was really bad, keys pinging at full velocity, dead keys, drawbars not working, the split keyboard lights not working. I tipped the keyboard forward so the liquid could drain out the front. It did still come back on the next day, but had a lot of problems. I opened it up and cleaned it. I took out the ribbon cables, cleaned those contacts, took off the rubber coverings over the keyboard contacts, cleaned the circuit boards under the keys with rubbing alcohol and rinsed off the rubber coverings, dried them, and put the whole thing back together. There was cat hair and other debris inside too which I removed. I had a friend check the diodes on the circuit boards under the right-hand keys and they were all ok. Overall, probably needed a good cleaning anyway after being on the road that long.

Now, the synth and organ sounds work fine. All the effects work fine. Drawbars work fine. Even a key that was dead previous to this incident now works fine.

However, on the piano setting, while the keys do work, there are three octaves that are always quiet regardless of how hard they are pressed. They are faint, not completely dead, and they do work on organ and synth, but in context of playing on piano with everyone else, it's almost as if they are silent. So the velocity sensor on those octaves is not working somehow.

I was going to attempt a factory reset next but, I get an error every time I try to back it up, "USB error bulk pipe write failed," which could be because I have a cheap Walmart cable. I have ordered a better one.

Is there anything else I can try? Does anyone have any other suggestions? I understand I might have to send it off to be repaired, but I do need it ASAP, so if it could be an easy fix, I'd like to try to get it working myself. Thank you for any input.

[jvleeuwe]

I recently had also a beer spill over the left-hand side of the keys and propbably also a bit into the half-moon leslie switch.
Can you try to pull out the half-moon switch plug to see if that solves the issue. For me it did.

[JOZpickels]

Really, on the velocity sensor? Interesting, I will have to try that.