Emax

Hi
   
  When I received my used Emax II I saw that the display showed strange letters and sometimes a blank screen. It turned out to be some kind of disconnection between the main PCB boards inside (Although they appeared to be connected).
   
  Try to upen up the Emax II and unscrew the PCB's and detach the boards from each other and reseat the PCBs and screw them back on. Also push on all the chips on the boards to make sure they are firmly seated.
   
  Also upgrade to the latest OS (2.14) which eliminated my callibration appearance which I had every time I turned the Emax II on.
   
  Best regards
   
  Brian

esynthesist <esynthesist@...> skrev:
  Mmmm that display stuff doesn't look nice.

I don't know any technical details about the hardware of the EMAX-II, 
but I'm pretty sure EMAX-II stores a few parameters in "some kind" of 
memory (i.e. not on disk). This memory is retained even when power is 
off.

Now I haven't heard of any battery in the EMAX (?) so I guess another 
technology is being used, probably some kind of EEPROM (?)

After using "special" functions in the "master" module, EMAX 
says "Just A Moment..." while saving the recalibration information 
into memory. As this message appears for about 1-2 seconds this means 
the save process is quite slow. That's why I think it's some kind of 
EEPROM, because saving information into (early) EEPROMs is known to 
be slow.
EEPROMs can be rewritten only a limited number of times. When they're 
end of life, they can fail.

Does your EMAX remember the LCD contrast settings ? Because that's 
also a parameter that is being saved in "memory".

Maybe I'm totally wrong, and maybe there's a battery somewhere in the 
EMAX. If that's true, you should replace it :-)

Perhaps you can find the problem by doing some diagnostic tests, as 
described in the diagnostics guide for EMAX (you can download that 
one from www.emulatorarchive.com).

By the way, does anyone know if EMAX is using a battery or some kind 
of rewritable ROM ??

///E-Synthesist 

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, Charles Hopper <jibbachops@y...> wrote:
>
> Hi, thanks for the reply, i seem to have lost the
> manual somewhere but found a copy on the web, i will
> be able to sort the recalibration problem out as soon
> as i can sort the new issue i have! The display
> appears to be knackered now, well, not the display
> iself as it works fine but what appears on it is
> rubbish! im getting half of what should be displayed
> and plenty of ////////````````` and a few random
> letters, ive switched the unit off and disconnected
> any midi cables (it seemed to knack after id been
> linking stuff together) and switched back on again and
> it seems that only the bottom line works now, does
> anyone reckon this is fixable or is my emax 2 bust!
> everything else seems to work fine tho!
> Cheers
> Anthony
> 
> --- Nicolas Monti <nikjack51@y...> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Anthony and everyone in this group,
> >    
> >   I´ve bought an Emax2 recently and likewise the
> > display always reads "warning calibration
> > needed"...i calibrated it with the recalibration
> > function but this calibration seems not to be stored
> > in any kind of memory...so it needs to be
> > recalibrated every time. I don´t know enough yet as
> > to say if this is normal or not. 
> >   
> > Btw....i´ve been around this group for a week, and
> > i´d also like to thank e-synthesist for what he´s
> > done. I´m using emxp with no difficulties. Pitty
> > that one cannot find the EmaxII sound bank in the
> > net. I´ve visited dragonslair.com but i haven´t
> > found anything.
> >    
> >   
> > 
> > Charles Hopper <jibbachops@y...> wrote:
> >   Hi,
> > the last couple of times ive switched on my emax2
> > the
> > display has read 'Warning Calibration needed', any
> > idea what this is about or how i fix the problem?
> > Cheers
> > Anthony 
> > 
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