Pyrotech
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As an unintentional follow up to the 'Do you let inexperienced people use your light board' thread, our pastor recently allowed a community group to use our Fellowship Hall.
They were informed NOT to use the light board (an ETC Express 48/96) in the tech booth...
Later that day, I got a call from the pastor saying several of the lights were 'acting funny'. Which, when I got there, was because the board was completely non-functional (not sure how that happens if you don't fiddle with it, but I digress...). I had other commitments, so I killed power to the lights themselves to stop the flashing from no control signal and left.
Yesterday I had time to do more trouble shooting. Fuse was good, etc., etc. Then I unplugged the power supply cord (shakes head). For whatever unknown reason for whatever they were trying to do (with the light board they weren't supposed to be touching), someone apparently unplugged it and then apparently didn't spend much time trying to properly align the pins in the DIN connector before reinserting it.
Two of the five pins are severely bent. I am going to try to straighten them as best I can with needle nose pliers (unless anyone has a better suggestion on how to straighten the pins) but am assuming I will likely need a new PS.
Unfortunately, the ETA-USA Model DTA27-0512FWX-W-3-OC4-8 is listed as obsolete. I have found it on Digi-Key and other sites, but all show it as 'Out Of Stock'.
Does anyone have any sources that may carry one - or, failing that, has anyone opened the 'brick' of one before and is it possible to solder in a new DIN cable/connector?
Thanks!
PS: To answer the 'other' suggestion, yes, I am in the process of building a lockable cover for the lighting board to be installed once I have it functional again...
They were informed NOT to use the light board (an ETC Express 48/96) in the tech booth...
Later that day, I got a call from the pastor saying several of the lights were 'acting funny'. Which, when I got there, was because the board was completely non-functional (not sure how that happens if you don't fiddle with it, but I digress...). I had other commitments, so I killed power to the lights themselves to stop the flashing from no control signal and left.
Yesterday I had time to do more trouble shooting. Fuse was good, etc., etc. Then I unplugged the power supply cord (shakes head). For whatever unknown reason for whatever they were trying to do (with the light board they weren't supposed to be touching), someone apparently unplugged it and then apparently didn't spend much time trying to properly align the pins in the DIN connector before reinserting it.
Two of the five pins are severely bent. I am going to try to straighten them as best I can with needle nose pliers (unless anyone has a better suggestion on how to straighten the pins) but am assuming I will likely need a new PS.
Unfortunately, the ETA-USA Model DTA27-0512FWX-W-3-OC4-8 is listed as obsolete. I have found it on Digi-Key and other sites, but all show it as 'Out Of Stock'.
Does anyone have any sources that may carry one - or, failing that, has anyone opened the 'brick' of one before and is it possible to solder in a new DIN cable/connector?
Thanks!
PS: To answer the 'other' suggestion, yes, I am in the process of building a lockable cover for the lighting board to be installed once I have it functional again...