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Default Studiomaster Powerhouse Vision 12, 1996

Gareth Magennis wrote in message
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Anyone know of pics of the interior?

A previous "repairer" removed all fuses , ratings on overlay , so ok.

But
did not mark the ribbons before removing all of them. Majority are
mateable
without ambiguity. There are 2x 16 way ribbons with exactly the same IDC
connectors that could go to either of 2 places on the central board
holding
the graphic sliders and LED bargraphs.
Completely different lengths to the ribbons , does not help to decide as
the
headers are adjascent
One ribbon is from Conn1 of rear INSert sockets
The other from the CCD display board
Cannot start rectifying whatever the underlying problem was, before
sorting
out this added problem



I have a Horizon here, which I'm pretty sure is the same layout as the
Vision - I have seen lots of this series of Powered Mixer, and they are

all
very similar except different numbers of channels and Power amp modules.

On this one, the front panel PCB these both plug into is marked "R1A8-4".
The connector closest to the back of the mixer (and thus closest to the
alphanumeric display) is the one that goes to the DSP board.

This cable should be the shorter one - it thus makes logical sense that

the
shorter cable travels the shortest distance between the 2 different
connection possibilities, the Insert cable having the longer route and the
longer cable.


I seriously doubt anything will blow up if the wrong one is connected to

the
wrong socket, unless Studiomaster were monumentally stupid at design

stage!




Gareth.



But a thoughtful designer would make one 20way with 2 redundent or
blocked+cut pin identifier/inhibitor somewhere. As the ps and pa seem to be
ok I don't want to compound the problem. I think a few ground tracing is the
way forward, just requires removing the display board which should be easy
enough