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Author Topic: Christie AM-8 automation blows fuses Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 09-11-2004 06:10 PM                        ...when powered up by the circuit breaker on the console. I haven't been to the location yet to look at it. I didn't find troubleshooting tips or a schematic anywhere. I am thinking that maybe the timer motor is stuck. But would that blow the fuse right when the automation is powered up? Probably not since it's activated only when the start relay is latched. Anyway, any good tips?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-11-2004 07:15 PM                     I would disconnect all external; stiff form the automation...cue detectors and ancillary stuff thats being fed fomr the units power supply and then see if the thing holds. Could be as simple as a bad power tranny a bad cue detector or cue board if equipped with such. AM-8's are one of the most reliable units made so i would be surprised if something really serious was amuck. Mark @ CLACO  |  IP: Logged Don Sneed Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Texas City, TX, USA Registered: Aug 2001 posted 09-11-2004 11:16 PM                        I had this problem a few times with this automation, check the power transformer, this was the problem both times this happen...  |  IP: Logged Stan Gunn Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Clematis, in the hills near Melbourne Australia Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-13-2004 06:43 AM                        A good multimeter would be the best tool to use here, I think the ohms range would be the way to go. Dont forget to isolate the mains supply! Oh and read the meter instruction book. Stan  |  IP: Logged Samuel Hynds Film Handler Posts: 50 From: Riverside, CA, USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-13-2004 09:24 AM                     Hay Michael, Check the sockets of the relays, these conections have sometimes fallen back away from the relay and could be shorting on something? Good luck  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 09-13-2004 05:55 PM                        When I came to the location, it turned out to be just that the fuses they had in there were too small - just 1A instead of the 3A specified in the schematic. Bit thanks for all the tips, I am sure they will be useful some other day. Oh, and Stan - you already look like a retard in your picture, I don't think you need to emphasize that with your stupid and aggressive responses to my posts.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-13-2004 06:08 PM                     quote: Stan Gunn.... Dont forget to isolate the mains supply! This one deserves a sarcastic reply! Someone back in my Basic Electronics class in High School once said that the power transformer does exactly that......  |  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 09-13-2004 06:41 PM                        Mike, pour yourself a real big drink and stop being an ass. You don't look like the brightest bulb in the string in your picture. Stan's looks just fine.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 09-13-2004 07:15 PM                        It's nice to see that you defend him, but you are apparently not aware that he did that quite a few times, sometimes quoting me out of context, getting aggressive. I have no idea why, maybe I just happen to look a little like that uncle who did all those terrible things to him when he was a boy?  |  IP: Logged Stan Gunn Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Clematis, in the hills near Melbourne Australia Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-16-2004 07:19 AM                        Mark ok, you got me on that one. I was also taught the same. Michael. It says a lot about a person in the way they talk about someone they have never met. It says even more when they accuse a family member of commiting revolting acts against a child. A look at my past posts will show MY attitude to other members of this forum. Subject closed. Stan Gunn.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 09-16-2004 03:49 PM                        quote: It says a lot about a person in the way they talk about someone they have never met. A look at my past posts will show MY attitude to other members of this forum. Dear Stan, I couldn't say it better: we never met, neither in person nor in the chat room or in a discussion - you just sometimes like to post aggressively towards me. Then I think "WTF is that guy? He doesn't even know me, like Brad or Mark who do and have real and valid reasons to hate me". That shows what YOUR attitude is indeed.  |  IP: Logged

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