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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-24-2002 02:39 PM

Anyone else had both the power supply and the backup power supply take the proverbial dump at the same time? Powered everything down Monday night then Tuesday AM no power at all to the CP500. No mono backup.. no display, no nothing. Got a new CP500 in today (R/E)but after swapping discovering the power supplies bad did some intra house swapping to find taht only the p/supplies themselves were bad. New one ordered, will be here in the AM. All cards checked out fine when changed into another processor.

Also, read the other day that somehow you could preset volume levels between trailers/print with the CP500. How?

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Scott Norwood
Film God

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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-24-2002 04:52 PM

Can't help with the power supply issue, but check the "cp500 auto-digital bugginess" thread for info on automating the fader changes.

Basically, you assign a particular format and fader setting to one or more soft keys and have the automation pulse between them. If your automation is set up to pulse multiple soft keys, you can set the default format to be at a low volume for trailers and then have a sound cue at the start of the feature that selects another format (both can be "Dolby SR," but the second one can have a higher fader setting) at feature start.

If your CP500 firmware supports "auto-digital" and you have the SRD cards and reader, there's an issue if you have two formats with the same name--it's pretty much covered in the earlier thread and there are at least two workarounds for it.

The other alternative would be to use Brad's remote-fader trick (see the "tips" section of this site), which works on all processors but usually requires reworking the automation system.

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Tom Sauter
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 163
From: Buffalo, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2000

posted 07-25-2002 10:00 AM

Jason,

I'll suuggest that your backup power supply took the proverbial dump a long time ago, and you didn't notice it until the main power supply died.

If you're sure they both went at the same time, I'd check the AC line voltage where you're plugging them in and make sure its correct. I suppose one power supply leaving you in a catastrophic manner could potentially take the other one with it, but the most likely scenario is that your backup was already pooped.

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Jason Black
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1723
From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 07-25-2002 03:37 PM

Thanks guys.
The main & backup p/supplies have both been replaced and all is well.

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