well that's good news
A few weeks I was lighttech on a festival, we had the same with the lightdesk,
hmmmm, measured 380 V on the input were it should have been 230V
Firework guaranteed.
but worked afterwards indeed
Berk
>-- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
>To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>From: Patrice Jacquot <Jacquot.Patrice@...>
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:58:49 +0200
>Subject: Re: Betr: [Simmons Drums] RE: SDX repair
>Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>
>
>Hi chaps,
>
>I did have the case of smoking capacitors on my Xrack,
>(impressive !!!) but it still worked after this ...
>
>Patrice.
>
>
>Le 1 oct. 08 à 09:16, Berk Aarts a écrit :
>
>> After the monitor went blank/black, did you still have sound??
>> in other words was it possible to play on the pads and hear sound
>> from your
>> outputs??
>> if not, did the harddrive still turn??
>> if not, 99% chance the powersupply went dead, a large capacitor??
>> was there
>> any smoke??
>>
>> Berk
>>
>>> -- Oorspronkelijk bericht --
>>> To: <simmons_drums@yahoogroups.com>
>>> From: Rodn Siddall <rodsiddall@...>
>>> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 02:32:19 +0000
>>> Subject: [Simmons Drums] RE: SDX repair
>>> Reply-To: Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers chaps,
>>> unfortunately I'm in Sheffield, U.K. so the Stateside options are
>>> out
>>> really.
>>> It's the fully loaded version with large (for then) hard drive, 3
>>> snares,
>>> 4 cymbals,
>>> God knows how many toms (they're stored in cupboards all over the
>>> place)
>>> and like
>>> I said, originally, 3 bass drums. I remember feeling I was just
>>> starting
>>> to get on top
>>> of the bugger... Songs had to be recorded in 2 parts because the
>>> Atari would
>>> clog up
>>> after 2.5-3 minutes with the amount of information the pads threw
>>> out, but
>>> it freed
>>> up tape channels, and we only had 8! - when it failed all the work
>>> I'd programmed
>>>
>>> with it ended up triggering an Alesis D4, losing all the subtlety...
>>>
>>> (as can be heard at http://www.myspace.com/mojopin95 if anyone is
>>> interested,
>>> Ha)
>>>
>>> From what I remember it booted up OK, but then, after 30-60 seconds
>>> the
>> monitor
>>>
>>> went blank (black) and a horrible whine ensued.
>>> I switched it off and on again only to have the same thing happen,
>>> and about
>>>
>>> a fortnight later I confirmed it hadn't been a bad dream by
>>> repeating the
>>> process.Not being a technical over achiever that pretty much had me
>>> stumped
>>> and I
>>> haven't trusted anyone enough to let them just rummage around
>>> inside the
>>> thing.
>>> I think my best bet is Patrice and buying the schematics, it would
>>> be a
>>> good starting
>>> point for the couple of people I trust with solder and amp
>>> meters, & it
>>> would be
>>> great to have it back in the studio - even after all these years,...
>>
>>>
>>> I'm not looking forward to ploughing through the manual again
>>> though :)
>>>
>>> Thanks again,
>>> Rod. ...unless there's a U.K. based SDX
>>> boffin ???
>>>
>>>
>>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354029/direct/01/
>>>
>>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>>>
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