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Re: EDP display saying: "d"
At 07:38 AM 1/29/2006, Philipp Zürcher wrote:
>Have been using my Echoplex (Oberheim, blonde) for almost ten years.
>Yesterday - soundchecking for a gig - I was wiggling the power chord
>behind the unit just a little, near the AC adaptor socket, and all at
>once the lights on my EDP went out except for the display saying "d".
>
>Any ideas what that could mean? - "d" is not for "dying", I hope...
sounds like it crashed because the power was interrupted. Especially since
you could cycle power and then it worked.
>Same thing happened as I was trying a second an a third time, but it
>came back to life every time i switched the power off and on again.
>
>I actually dropped the unit in question on my US tour three months
>ago and although it was safe in one of those SKB plastic rack cases,
>I am not sure if "d" could be for "damage" either!?
could be that a solder joint is cracked in the power supply or something
like that. That could have happened from dropping it or just years of
bouncing around. If you find a decent electronics tech with a soldering
iron, they can probably fix this really easy.
kim
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