Hi Matt,
A majority of the problems I've fixed on Neoteks are due to the
wiring/back plane/sockets/ribbon connectors that move voltage and signal on
down the line. If re-seating a module fixes or changes the problem, that's
a sure sign of this. You need to start investigating the signal and power
supply flow as it moves throughout the board and fix whatever if causing
this. I can't give you a more specific answer without knowing the exact
wiring configuration of your desk. May be a big job, but you'll only have
to do it once and the intermittents will stop. Good luck!
Regards, Jim
At 12:59 AM 6/26/2009, you wrote:
Don--
I'll have to check, but I don't believe there is a PCB below my master
module. I think it's all Molex on ribbon cables.
In any case, thanks for the advice. I should do this when I have some
down time... which seems to be not any time soon ;)
M
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Donald Put<[email protected]> wrote:
> Matt,
>
>> I presume you mean male connectors here, at least for the master
>> module. Or do you mean the the female connectors on the PCB below
>> channel cards?
>
> They both have pins that are soldered to the PCBs, but the male ones have
> thicker pins that are more susceptible to cold joints because they wick the
> heat away faster; therefore, the pads might get hot enough to hold the
> solder but the pins might not. It really depends on who was doing the
> soldering and how much attention they were paying to what they were doing.
>
> And, yes, I do mean the female connectors on the PCB below the channel
> cards. I replaced all of them on the master/buss/echo/two-buss, etc. just
> as a matter of course during my restoration of my Series II. I found a
> couple bad female connectors, so I just replaced them all because it was
> cheap insurance against it happening in the middle of a session.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Don
>
>
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