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dead outputs on 2 896HD

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 2:39 pm
by RayS
I recently used my 2x896 HDs on a european tour and in the last city I got some problems with dead outputs on both machines.....3 on the first one and 1 on the other....I know I will have to send them back to motu for repair but what I can't figure out is what could have caused this? I was told maybe I inadvertently switched on the phantom power on the M7CL board but that was ruled out , I was also told it is not unusual to zap motu outputs with just static???

Any thoughts???
The funny thing here is that I can see modulation from 3 of the outs but there's no audio ??? all other outputs are fine.........and I was able to do the show with an aggregate device of the 2 units.......

thanks

Ray

Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:24 pm
by Dwetmaster
I've had this problem and it came from a dead opamp at the entrance of the channel preamp. For me it was caused by plugging a 1/4 Jack when Phantom pwr was on.

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:59 am
by RayS
Dwetmaster wrote:I've had this problem and it came from a dead opamp at the entrance of the channel preamp. For me it was caused by plugging a 1/4 Jack when Phantom pwr was on.

I never used the inputs ..only the outputs, so unless I was sending 48V from the M7Cl (which I wasn't) plus the problem occurred on 2 different 896s.

Did you get yours repaired at MOTU or did you find a repair shop in MTL???

Thanks

Ray

Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 4:50 pm
by Dwetmaster
I had mine done @ BlacklionAudio in Chicago.
http://www.blacklionaudio.com/

Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 12:42 pm
by RayS
Dwetmaster wrote:I had mine done @ BlacklionAudio in Chicago.
http://www.blacklionaudio.com/
Hummm, they told me I had to get them fixed first and then send them in for the mod????


Ray

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:58 pm
by Hayman

Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 8:25 am
by RayS
Yes, I had seen that post prior to posting about my own troubles, I might send this to motu techlinks,

Thanks

Ray