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Author Topic: Ultrastereo self destruct button Andy Davis Film Handler Posts: 49 From: Gainesville, FL Registered: Dec 1999 posted 05-03-2000 10:29 PM                        Last week somebody pressed the "Standby" power supply button on one of our Ultrastereo processors. The power supply (JPS-10) destroyed itself, along with the format card. I still don't know if any of the speakers are blown. I ordered new cards and the new power supply has the Standby button removed. I guess Ultrastereo figured out what a bad idea it was. My tech said that he's seen a lot worse things happen from people hitting that button. Our other processors still have the Standby button in place. Are there any tricks to disabling or removing the button?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-04-2000 02:13 AM                     That's an "anti-tinkerer" button! That way the engineer will know if someone was messing around with the processor. (Actually, I've never had this problem with an Ultra Stereo unit, but I have heard of this.)  |  IP: Logged Dwayne Caldwell Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Rockwall, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 05-04-2000 02:30 AM                     Ultra Stereo sucks. But I can't say I've ever had one self-destruct on me. Safe to say I'd be taking a bat to one if it did. Take it out into a field and smash the hell out of it like they did in Office Space with that fax machine. I know many's a time I felt that way about Telex video projectors at my last job. Film and Video should never be integrated into one movie theatre. It's a shame those video projectors didn't have an auto-destruct button. ------------------ The man with the magic hands.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-04-2000 07:19 AM                     Whae you get the new power supply in tear the switch off the module and solder across it. I always do this,even with brand new units. That switch has caused many a disaster. Mark  |  IP: Logged Michael Barry Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 584 From: Sydney, NSW, Australia Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-05-2000 11:21 AM                     Yes, Dwayne, just what I was thinking! That scene in Office Space was hilarious...what other cinema equipment deserves the Office Space treatment? Um, let's see...CFS Superplatters? Monee projectors? Anyone else? How about those stupid lamphouses that use a 45 degree mirror to reflect the light into the gate from below?  |  IP: Logged Jason Burroughs Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 654 From: Allen, TX Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-05-2000 01:22 PM                     Hmmm wonder if that should be labled the "upgrade" button. Pressing it forces you to upgrade your equipment, to umm say like the likes of Dolby  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-05-2000 02:31 PM                     Hmmm wonder if that should be labled the "upgrade" button. Pressing it forces you to upgrade your equipment, to umm say like the likes of Dolby If you want to upgrade get the panastereo then you are in the proaudio league rather than a cp45  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-06-2000 10:47 PM                     I understand you can press the button IF AND ONLY IF you have an external power supply hooked up and operational before you press it. Of course, I don't know anybody who does have it. Since those switches cause the P.S. to spontaneously self-destruct (even if you didn't press it) we've had a lot of them get replaced. They all come back with the switch removed and the hole plugged out.  |  IP: Logged

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