ClearCom RM-440 with problems

[Jay Ashworth]

They appear to still have a repair department over there; I've filled out their query form. Thanks.

 

[TimMc]

Apparently Mark, at Clear Com, is the guy who knows where all the bodies are buried on the PL line of gear... and he's due back from vacay tomorrow. So hopefully I'll hear from him this week.

If anyone has someone else's bench to refer me to (I know my limits ), let me know. SEAL in Orlando still have a bench?

Just for giggles, try reseating the ribbon cables. If you've got some De-Oxit, a little on a q-tip to clean the pin headers would be a nice touch.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

Just for giggles, try reseating the ribbon cables. If you've got some De-Oxit, a little on a q-tip to clean the pin headers would be a nice touch.

I'm proud to say I'm ahead of you - I took my can of D5 to the shop with me and sprayed some on those spots on the back of the switchboard that looked like they were leftover flux, and I pulled each end of each ribbon cable off and sprayed some inside the connector and then pushed them back on and worked them a little bit. Didn't have any Q-tips.

Sadly, it didn't help.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

Mark got right back to me today, modulo time zones, and says *there's a Clearcom/RTS mode switch* on there somewhere, which might be set wrong. That'd just about do it, yeah. Checking later.

Don't you love a good saga?

 

[themuzicman]

Page 18 of the document proper (like printed in the corner)- Check out the J2 jumper situation...grasping at straws but it's worth a look!

I don't remember the RM-440 having RTS/CC options on the insides, doesn't mean it doesn't exist though, it's just not a feature I'd touch too much...if there is you'll have to let us know, that's a useful bit of knowledge and I can't seem to coax a ton of info on the internal jumper settings of the RM-440 out of Google tonight.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

No, I misunderstood him. He meant on the back of my freespeak II. And since that has Clear-Com boxes plugged into it by two wire, I assume it's set to Clear-com.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

And while I thank you for the link to the service manual, they didn't scan the stuff with nearly high enough black and white resolution; it's almost impossible to read a bunch of the important detail...

 

[themuzicman]

And while I thank you for the link to the service manual, they didn't scan the stuff with nearly high enough black and white resolution; it's almost impossible to read a bunch of the important detail...

This One looks a little better? Sorry! I literally just looked at the title page, and then swiped really fast until I saw a circuit diagram and went, "ok, looks good!". Your friend is onto something with the FS-II-Base-II, that seems like a likely culprit.

 

[TimMc]

I do not think all of the issues Jay is having can be laid at the CC/RTS/Telex switch.

 

[Jay Ashworth]

Me neither, Tim, though I do propose to attach it to this CS-100 I brought home who's foibles I'm well familiar with, and see what happens then.

I don't think it's impossible someone left the J2 jumper in test mode, either...

 

[Jay Ashworth]

Testing...

 

[TimMc]

Testing...

one, two... check... is this thing on?

 

[Jay Ashworth]

It was. I had thought I noted an unusual amount of time during which one could edit one's comments, by comparison to previous behavior, but I don't see it now...

 

[Jay Ashworth]

I did, finally, get to plug this into our (1970's? era) CS-100 power supply, and the behaviour, while a bit more predictable and repeatable, is still broken. I'm going to try to get video of it over the weekend -- probably between my Sat mat and Sat nite shows, when I have a 3 hour break -- and post a Dropbox link to it. It's weird...