TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: pro_audio
to: JASON LAVOIE
from: LASZLO SOKOLAI
date: 1996-01-08 22:58:00
subject: Re: big, big, big sound!

* In a message originally to Denis Paquin, Jason Lavoie said:
JL > DP> Hello Laszlo, I'm a pro sound installer. Just a observation from
JL > reading yo
JL > DP> message. As for the lamps dimming on your mixer when you push it. It
JL > would
JL > DP> sound like your overoading your power line in some way. Keep in mind
JL > if you
JL > DP> power feed from the fuse/breaker panel in long or a little small in
JL > gauge
JL > DP> you'll get a dip in AC voltage. Hence your lamps dimming from a
JL > signifacant
JL > DP> voltage dip. A lot of high powered amps draw close to 15amps alone.
JL > Just
JL > DP> because your not popping the breaker doesn't mean everthing is fine.
JL > Check
JL > DP> little deeper.
JL > I have this very same problem with my Gemini mixer, and the
JL > light dims whether
JL > I am running any amps or not.. it seems that the power
JL > supply inside the mixer
JL > is insufficient and is at fault. the light is one the same
JL > voltage rails as
JL > the VU meters, and those rails dip when the VUs get high.
JL > this may be a different problem though.
Must be a low impedance value headphones attached, or a speaker attached to 
the mixer without an amp.  Or something is really wrong.
Laszlo Sokolai
Team ANTI-Windows95/PRO-OS2/PRO-Unix
lsokolai@bbs42.com
--- BBS 42
---------------
* Origin: BBS 42 (1:221/605)

SOURCE: echomail via exec-pc

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.