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Re: Some beginner's questions

2007-03-14 by Ken Stone

If you try to draw too much power from a Serge power supply, it will
go into shut-down. This is what you are seeing. So yes, the PS4
doesn't have the power to drive your modules. Connect one of the
modules to the PS2, making sure you run the earth wire between the
two power supplies.

Ken

--- In SergeModular@yahoogroups.com, "riluttante" <riluttante@...>
wrote:
> Rex suggested that I get something a little more powerful than only
a PS4 to power this
> power-hungry panel configuration, so I ended up getting a PS4 plus
a PS2 as a backup.
> When I connect all four panels to the PS4 distribution board
sometimes both lights on the
> distro board come on, and sometimes only one of them (and the
lights on the panels
> themselves don't light up). So that would mean the PS4 can't handle
the four panels by
> itself?

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