Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

well the power button and volume knob share the same circuit board 
with the headphone jack i think. so they must be having some sort of 
bad relationship(do they share the same circuit board? havent looked 
in a while) too bad i have no idea why it's doing that. im no 
electrician.

good luck


--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "tekno_freax" <tekno_freax@y...> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody, I'm new to this group, I 've bought a second hand 
> XL-7 yesterday and have a very strange problem. Allready did a 
> search but couldn't find anything related to this (sorry if it has 
> been handeld before)
> 
> Here is my problem:
> 
> If I turn on the unit using the hard-wired switch on the back, the 
> unit turns on (most of the time) then, if I twist the volume knop 
> from full down to half-way, or sometimes just barely touch the 
> volume knob it goes into automatic power-down.
> 
> Then, when I franticly twist the volume knob, it usually goes out 
of 
> this power down, yesterday I was to late and it powered down. 
> Pushing the power knob on the front pannel doesn't do anything, 
and 
> after a lot of twisting the volume knob, and using the switch on 
the 
> back I got it to power up again. However the front pannel power on 
> button doesn't seem to do anything, and this morning I couldn't 
get 
> it to power on at all.
> 
> Does anybody know of this problem? Is the volume knob somehow 
> connected to the soft power switch? It's the strangest thing I 
have 
> ever seen on a piece of gear?!
> 
> Any help would be greatly appriciated, I would love to dive into 
> this machine but allready I am afraidof using it live, seeing it 
> could power down just by touching the volume knob...
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ilja
>