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#268183 - 25/11/2005 10:51 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: furtive]
Nobbie
journeyman

Registered: 12/02/2002
Posts: 59
Loc: Herts, UK
Yeah i know, but hey i'm a nice guy. Do a cont test, and see, it it is the fuse i have some spares, and depending where you are could have a look at it, but either way do the cont check and then we will know for sure that it can be fixed.
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#268184 - 04/01/2006 18:07 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: furtive]
furtive
old hand

Registered: 14/08/2001
Posts: 886
Loc: London, UK
Right I've tested continuity in the threefuses in question and they all seem to be fine.

I've packed the mainboard up and will be shipping it off for repair tomorrow...


Edited by furtive (04/01/2006 18:27)
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#268185 - 03/05/2007 18:54 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: furtive]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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Right I had a play with the jumpers.

With all the blue ones removed (they are the ones nearest the power socket) I get no clicking and no flashing LED

With the 2 x 6v jumpers in place but the one 3v jumper removed, I get the clicking but the blue USB LED on the rear flashes rather than the blue LED on the front.

With the single 3v jumper in place but the 2 6v jumpers removed I get the clicking but no LED's flashing.

Did this player ever come back to life again? I'm afraid I'm not asking out of the usual Empeg attentiveness to customers, but because my own car-player, 80000211, has just gone down with exactly this problem. It was plugged-in and sleeping quietly upstairs, I unplugged it and took it downstairs and plugged it in, and it started with the tick, tick, tick problem.

I've removed the main board, and fiddled with the jumpers, and got exactly the same results you did above. No foreign bodies are anywhere in evidence

Peter

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#268186 - 06/05/2007 19:30 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: peter]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Try unplugging the display board connector - maybe it's the 60v supply that has gone?

Hugo

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#268187 - 07/05/2007 08:29 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: altman]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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Try unplugging the display board connector - maybe it's the 60v supply that has gone?

It still does it even with an uncased, diskless, displayless mainboard. Removing loose screws or crap from under the board I could just-about have dealt with myself, but at this point it's definitely time for this player to seek the Schofield...

Peter

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#268188 - 08/05/2007 23:53 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: peter]
altman
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/05/1999
Posts: 3457
Loc: Palo Alto, CA
Or I can take a look when I'm back in Cambridge next month? Will work for cider

Hugo

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#268189 - 09/05/2007 09:10 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: altman]
rob
carpal tunnel

Registered: 21/05/1999
Posts: 5335
Loc: Cambridge UK
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Will work for cider


So THAT'S how Jobs persuaded you over to the dark side!

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#268190 - 09/05/2007 12:21 Re: empeg dead - clicking noise and led flashes quickly in time with c [Re: altman]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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Or I can take a look when I'm back in Cambridge next month? Will work for cider

Heh, I know how much you enjoy tinkering with car-players, and I was toying with the idea of sending it over with the boy Neil at the end of the month. But Rob's local, so that just seemed more sensible and besides, he's got all the spares now -- Lucie rescued the last box of chips and what-not from the skip the other day, and we handed them to Rob.

Peter

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#268191 - 11/05/2007 07:35 Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: peter]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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at this point it's definitely time for this player to seek the Schofield...

*cough* Dead power supply *cough*

Peter

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#268192 - 11/05/2007 10:26 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: peter]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14496
Loc: Canada
That sounds like good news!

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#268193 - 17/05/2007 12:58 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: mlord]
cookie_77
member

Registered: 08/03/2002
Posts: 145
Grrr... my Empeg Serial 30102889 got the same problem.

Took it partially apart but can't see anything foreign.

Do empeg still have support in the cambridge area?

C.

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#268194 - 17/05/2007 13:11 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: cookie_77]
Roger
carpal tunnel

Registered: 18/01/2000
Posts: 5683
Loc: London, UK
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Do empeg still have support in the cambridge area?


RobS is in Cambridge. He's still doing support, when he gets time.
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#268195 - 17/05/2007 14:11 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: cookie_77]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
Quote:
Grrr... my Empeg Serial 30102889 got the same problem.

Took it partially apart but can't see anything foreign.

If it really is the same problem, try a different power supply. That's all that was wrong with mine.

Peter

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#268196 - 17/05/2007 14:52 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: peter]
cookie_77
member

Registered: 08/03/2002
Posts: 145
yeah i suspected the power supply but i don't have another sutible.

12-15v 1amp is the required power supply?

C.

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#268197 - 17/05/2007 15:19 Re: Live from Teh Internets, this week's "I am a nitwit" [Re: cookie_77]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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yeah i suspected the power supply but i don't have another sutible.

12-15v 1amp is the required power supply?

12-15V, at least 1amp, yes. More than 1 amp would also be fine. (The FAQ goes into more detail but that's basically it.)

Peter

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