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

I am glad you mentioned this. For the past 5 or 6 weeks, my soft on/off button didn't seem to be working (P2500). I thought it was wear and that I wasn't pressing it "just right." However, I have noticed that when the unit sits for a while and I then power up with the hard switch, the E-Mu typically boots right away.

Maybe it is a sign of the start of a power supply problem. 

Steve

--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, "ackack1020" <sackley85@...> wrote:
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> Yes, another power supply topic, but with a twist this time.
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> Just got a MP-7, loving it so far, very intuitive. I had a scare though...
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> I've been only using the soft-power button to power on and off, and just last night I went to turn the unit on, and it just sat there for about 1-2 minutes with all the lights on before going to the "loading......" screen and booting normally.
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> So, after searching and reading on here I saw that was kind of what happens to failing power supplies (  >:[] ) but I also found this little nugget of info - EU owners had higher rates of power supply failures if the hard-power switch was left on constantly (due to ~ 220v vs 120v).
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> So, I turned that off, and half an hour later booted it up and everything was as normal. Again, this morning, I turned it on by the hard-power switch, and everything loaded as usual.
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> So, after all that, my questions are....
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> 1. Should I always soft-power down, and then hard-power off, or can I just hard-power off every time?
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> 2. Should I start researching a replacement power supply, as this could be the sign of things to come? (I found the link to powdec, and couldn't discern if there was a compatible option there...)
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> TIA, and I've got to give respect to the community for keeping things up and running while creative's dropped the ball.
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