Emax

Jammie,

Right you are. On top of the 400+ dollars I spend on the unit, I've spend over a day and a half of my own time trouble shooting, I paid to have the 2 solder points repaired (bought a rather expensive solder kit of my own but then chickened out not wanting to damage it any more), and now I have to resend via ups. 

After having the solder points fixed I just decided to send it back without trying to fire it up. Someone mentioned metering the PSU voltage before reconnecting it and that is just beyond what I am capable of doing, or even what I signed up for.

The seller says he will fix it and send it back. I'm just feeling frustrated and sad and would almost prefer a refund and hope that I can find another HD rack at some other point in the future.

Win some, loose some I suppose. 

Joel

--- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@...> wrote:
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> yes maybe i have had problems with the light green lcd control panels were the original solding was done to hot and lifted the tracks so that when you put uyour desoldering gun on the pin not the pad and you suck up the molten solder and there is no pad there
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> on the dark green versions like the motherboards and the voice board they art much better produced boards and dont suffer from this problem
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> i have encounted that the solder that was used on the psu is very soft which means any structural force aplied by removing the power connectors can crack the solder or move the contacts in the solder
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> have you soldered these items yetand did it sort out your psu problem
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> even so if you recieve something that does not work even if they say it was working if its not when you get it then its 
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> not correctly sold as stated
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: emax_dx5 
>   To: emax@...m 
>   Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 7:54 PM
>   Subject: [emax] Re: Emax HD rack unit DOA
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>   Consider that postage could has to do with this problem.
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>   One of my emax didn't power up as soon as I received it. Contacted the seller and he confirmed that the unit was working perfect. I carefully checked the power supply and found a cold solder joint in the transformer (quite reasonable, as the transformer weights a bit.
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>   Any shock in transit can make that happens.
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>   Best..
>   Jose
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>   --- In emax@yahoogroups.com, "jammie" <jammie.emma@> wrote:
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>   > solder them pins also check the earth spade tag as this can also come loose
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>   > and the switching circuit spade tag as this can also come loose
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>   > i would put a complaint into the person saying you are having to service the sampler becuase it is doa
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>   > and he sold it as working
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>   > and it must of been not working when he sent it as those joints just dont break with postage 
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