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Author Topic: Dolby Digital Gear to warm up ? Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-06-2004 11:24 AM                        HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYONE ! This is it: CP65 - DA20 - SA10 running "Nemo" with "Mr Incredible" and "Bear" trailers and "Pixar Snowman" short. First show every day, srd keeps dropping out during trailers and snowman, -fail code reading 5. > 6 > 6. and E. -When running srd between dropouts, sound is heavily distorted and filled with "plops". Later shows - still high failrate, but no drop-outs, as if gear had to "warm up" in good time before running. What's going on ? Per  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 01-06-2004 11:45 AM                     What type of reader? Welcome to the hell that is SRD in several of my locations. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Dominic Espinosa Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1172 From: Boulder Creek, CA. Registered: Jan 2004 posted 01-06-2004 11:55 AM                     This is pretty hill-billy, but it's worth a shot. Leave your processor on overnight and see if it does it in the morning. If it does it's most likely your reader. I'd assume perhaps a humidity problem? Although I doubt it. With such a high fail rate I'd think perhaps your reader is dirty or slightly out of allignment. But that's just my two cents...And it's early for me Good luck.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 01-06-2004 01:07 PM                        Sounds like there may be some alignment drift as the equipment warms up, so that if alignment is marginal when warm, it is out of spec when cold.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-06-2004 03:23 PM                     Are these new prints, or sloppy leftovers from the US?  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-06-2004 05:23 PM                        Reader is 701 on this projector - The other proj. has a 700, running much more stable. Dust removed daily with air. I doubt You would like to have ran this print - its a danish dubbed version ! - Ergo brand new. Shitty srd. -But Disney never makes dts for Denmark. p  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 01-06-2004 05:29 PM                     The cat701 is the worst tracking of all the Dolby readers. That's not to say that is a bad unit though, as my average tracking is between 1-3 on the error scale with them. What do most of your prints track at? If they are high and you are continually seeing this on new prints, then you should have the reader checked out.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 01-06-2004 05:31 PM                     Check out the drum bearings on the reader. If they are cold and stiff in the morning they may be putting drag on the system and then warm up as the drum rotates. Steve  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 01-06-2004 05:57 PM                        Leave the DA20 and the 701 off for your first run. Turn them on for the second run. If it works fine on the second run you've verified it's a mechanical problem. Like Steve said, check the bearings. Do you turn the heat in the booth off at night? I've come across theatres with similar problems because they shut their heat off at night and let everything freeze.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 01-07-2004 03:24 PM                        Never letting my old babes freeze at night. -I once ran a place, where the booth was so cold even with those small electric heaters on all night, the Bauer U2's thermoswitch made it impossible to run at all. Push start button, and the machine woudl run half a sec, maybe one - then stop. You could do so - or turn by hand for maybe five minutes, and be lucky to get going. It sure took time to make the landlord do some isolation. It's tough to be a U2 ! Will try the stunt running through turned off digital reader - good thinking, guys - thanks. p.  |  IP: Logged

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