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Re: (take 2) EDP Intermittent Restart Thingie



That should read 'How DRY was it?'
--- Bret <echoplex@yahoo.com> wrote:
> How was it, and was there much static?
> I have had the edp freak from static discharge on the footpedal.  Kim
> gave me a fix for this.  Put a rubber grommet around the quarter inch
> plug on the footpedal.  This isolates the case from the footpedal
> ground.
> 
> Static discharge may not be your problem, of course.
> bret
> --- "altruist@earthlink.net" <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > (Sending a second time due to apparent strangeness in my 
> > Kinko's-powered internet-isms... not sure if it got to the list the
> > first
> > time.  
> > Sorry for the redundancy if so!)
> > 
> > Hello folks,
> > 
> > A quick EDP query from the San Jose Kinko's --
> > 
> > At my gig last night I noticed a very strange thing with my EDP -
> it
> > would 
> > occasionally go into "restart" - i.e. the "LoopIV" start-up deal
> > would
> > flash 
> > across the screen.  (Obviously, this also had the effect of killing
> 
> > whatever audio was happening at the time).
> > 
> > This occasionally happened all by itself, without my touching
> > anything 
> > at all, and more occasionally when I would hit a button on my
> > footpedal.  
> > At one point it seemed to happen when I tapped the side of the
> > chassis 
> > of the pedal board, without touching any button or sending any 
> > particular command to the EDP.
> > 
> > After the last song, I looked down and the screen was COMPLETELY 
> > dark - you ask how much blacker it could be, and the answer is:
> > none... 
> > none more black.  Switching the power switch off and then on
> brought
> > it 
> > back, though...
> > 
> > Additional info:
> > 
> > - I was using a PMC-10 to control the EDP, plus a Boss Volume
> pedal. 
> > 
> > No EFC-7.
> > 
> > - Right after the gig, I plugged it in at the place I'm staying,
> and
> > couldn't 
> > get it to crash.  I left it running all night, and it's still
> working
> > fine
> > this 
> > morning.  
> > 
> > I've heard of this sort of thing happening with dirty SIMM sockets
> or
> > 
> > something like that... any other ideas?  Strange electrical current
> 
> > things?
> > 
> > If anyone has ideas, please reply to the list, not to me (as I'm
> > without 
> > regular Internet access until Sunday evening), so I can try and get
> > it 
> > straightened out with Kim at the session in Oakland on Sunday.
> > 
> > Big thanks,
> > 
> > --Andre
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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