Man of Honour
- Joined
- 29 Mar 2003
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- Stoke on Trent
I have a 3k PA rig for when I'm gigging and on Friday one of my speakers wouldn't turn on. An LED would flash but then no lights. I tried a microphone through it with no luck so to get through the gig we put one of my stage monitors on top of the bass stack and it did a surprisingly good job.
The following day I looked at getting it fixed but knew from experience Mackie only deal with certain repair centres and none are near me so I decided to look for second hand goods.
Amazingly I found a bloke selling a working one for £225 and a faulty one for £125 (speaker had blown) so I offered £300 and traveled 40 miles to get them on Sunday. I then removed the working PCB board out of his faulty one and put it in mine and ended up with a spare
Tonight I decided to look at the PCB board, so carefully plugged it in and started to tap gently on the back with a screwdriver to see if it was a dry joint and then hit something that made the LED come on
I looked down at the little button above the on/off switch and it was a Timer button
I got the instructions out that I hadn't read for 7 years and the button puts the speaker in Timer mode but needs a signal for around 10 seconds to wake it up.
Bugger, £300 wasted that I hadn't really got but the good side is that I can replace the woofer for £58 and add another 900 watt to my PA.
So come on Overclockers, because of your stupidity have you lost money? (getting married or engaged doesn't count)
The following day I looked at getting it fixed but knew from experience Mackie only deal with certain repair centres and none are near me so I decided to look for second hand goods.
Amazingly I found a bloke selling a working one for £225 and a faulty one for £125 (speaker had blown) so I offered £300 and traveled 40 miles to get them on Sunday. I then removed the working PCB board out of his faulty one and put it in mine and ended up with a spare
Tonight I decided to look at the PCB board, so carefully plugged it in and started to tap gently on the back with a screwdriver to see if it was a dry joint and then hit something that made the LED come on
I looked down at the little button above the on/off switch and it was a Timer button
I got the instructions out that I hadn't read for 7 years and the button puts the speaker in Timer mode but needs a signal for around 10 seconds to wake it up.
Bugger, £300 wasted that I hadn't really got but the good side is that I can replace the woofer for £58 and add another 900 watt to my PA.
So come on Overclockers, because of your stupidity have you lost money? (getting married or engaged doesn't count)