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    Hello all, mysterious broken instrument!

    OK... Figured it out. It is supposed to work with sound, as we all thought. Drilled opened the rivets holding it together, looked real close at the board, and found a capacitor that had a bad solder connection. I resoldered it, put it back together, and voila! It works great now...
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    Hello all, mysterious broken instrument!

    Thanks for all of your quick replies -- I will give the tone generator a try. I was also going to try sending a little bit of voltage to the RCA's to see if they are voltage driven, but the tone generator seems a little less harmful to try. Thanks for the idea, Elite1trek. The lights are...
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    Hello all, mysterious broken instrument!

    OK, I have some pictures of one of the lights. I don't believe they are DMX -- it's two RCA jacks, not an XLR style connector. I tried hooking up a CD player to the RCA jacs, but no results. Here are four pictures of the light, with all the labels and jacks. Any Ideas? Thanks, Brian
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    Hello all, mysterious broken instrument!

    Hi Ian, I know it's been a loooooong time since you posted this but I had a friend of mine give me 6 of these the other day. Now I am in the same boat that you were in a couple years ago. It would be a shame to toss them, as they all light up, but I can't get the mirror to spin except for...
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