a BAD BAD Day for Digital


I brought both my transports to a local electronics TV VCR handyman to cut the captive cord on my Procced PDT3 transport and install a removable IEC type and to check if he could fix a non working display on an Audiomeca Mephisto.

Well the Mephisto now wont remain powered on and now my Proceed wont lock onto the Genesis DIgital Lens or my Audilogic DAC. I rememeber a thread a week or so ago where another member stated that there is digital info fed in from the ac ground.?? Could it be possible this person miswired the IEC?? Any thoughts or hints would help, as I need to bring my stuff back to him and give the best direction on what to look at to remedy this problem.

thanks all
justlisten

Showing 1 response by bob_bundus

Justlisten do you have an ohmmeter or access to one? Or even a rudimentary automotive test light? You simply need to check for continuity between component's chassis ground & the IEC's third pin to determine if that connection is made.
Data is not carried on the ground leg, but sometimes logic ground depends upon that connection. I can help you out with a couple of other suggestions to check; just email me offthread w/ phone# contact if you want to talk about that, because it's not nearly so easily written as it is spoken.