Doepfer

I bought an A-148 Dual S&H from Thomann a good month ago,
although when i power up the modular, the LED's on the A-148
take a little while to become their bright red colour?

And.. how many LED's should be lit up on the A-160 Clock Div
module.  /2 and /4 are lit when powered up, is that correct?

Cheers A1k

--- In Doepfer_a100@yahoogroups.com, "analog1k" <analog1k@...> wrote:
>
> I bought an A-148 Dual S&H from Thomann a good month ago,
> although when i power up the modular, the LED's on the A-148
> take a little while to become their bright red colour?
> 
> And.. how many LED's should be lit up on the A-160 Clock Div
> module.  /2 and /4 are lit when powered up, is that correct?
> 
> Cheers A1k
>

Mine act in a similar way. Without signal coming in the modules don't really function so I am not concerned. If the light is on, voltage is coming out - the brightness on the S+H is relative to the voltage level at the output. the LEDs on the clock divider means the gate on those outputs is high. 

If you patch a trigger or gate into the A160 it will start to do its thing, diving the pulse and counting until it gets to the final stage when it resets. I use mine to get MIDI sync into my modular via the clock out of a Kenton Pro 2000mk2. I also really like patching the gate generated by a keyboard into it and triggering events every 4 or 8 notes etc.

> I bought an A-148 Dual S&H from Thomann a good month ago,
> although when i power up the modular, the LED's on the A-148
> take a little while to become their bright red colour?

A S&H makes sense only with a two signals applied to the inputs (SMP In and
Trig In). Without these signals the behaviour of the output is undefined and
it will drift to an unpredictibale voltage.

> And.. how many LED's should be lit up on the A-160 Clock Div
> module.  /2 and /4 are lit when powered up, is that correct?

Similar as the S&H. After power on the digital outputs have random states.

Best wishes
Dieter Doepfer