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No, all the modules work fine, it must be a loose strand of wire in the
MTA connector, it is wired correctly, it just shorts out when even you
connect it to a module. (it even shorts when you connect it to an MTA
connector not attached to anything, weird... -Nate

Paul Schreiber wrote:

> Sure it wasn't a bad '800?
>
> Check the wiring on the cable. I have seen 1 (out of ~1000) cables
> that had
> the 2 outside wires 'crossed'. I now try to check for this as I pack
> them
> up.
>
> Paul S.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Nathan Alan Hunsicker <nate@...>
> To: MOTM Newsgroup <motm@egroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 08, 2000 7:03 PM
> Subject: [motm] Thank God!!!
>
>
> > I finished building my 410 today. After replacing that pesky TL074
> op
> > amp I put in backwards, I was ready to power up the module and test
> it.
> > When I connected it to the power supply and turned it on, everything
>
> > stopped working, the light on my LFO was showing a dim green and was
> not
> > oscillating. Of course I immediately turned the PS off and
> disconnected
> > the 410, powered back up and everything works fine. Now I'm thinking
>
> > something is shorted out so I take one last look at EVERYTHING, not
> one
> > thing wrong (except for a resistor not facing the same way as the
> > others.) my next thought was does my PS have enough power to run all
> my
> > modules? I only have a 300, 320, 110, 120, 420, 410 & three 800's,
> it
> > couldn't possibly be the PS, but just in case, I disconnect one of
> the
> > 800's and try again, SUCCESS!!! So now I'm thinking I need another
> PS as
> > I prepare the module to put in my rack, I plug it back in, bolt it
> to
> > the rack rails, power up and WHAMMO, it happens again. I'm totally
> lost,
> > just as a last resort I try switching the MTA cable to the one that
> was
> > powering the 800 and it works! For some reason, when the bad MTA
> cable
> > is not connected to a module, it is fine, but as soon as I connect
> it to
> > a module (any module) it shorts out. I am so glad that it was the
> cable
> > and not my module. NOW, what was the reason I typed all of this you
> ask?
> > Just in case you build a module and can't figure out why it doesn't
> > work, don't forget the obvious, test the power cable. -Nate
> >
> >
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