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Gunnar Asgeirsson
Film Handler

Posts: 64
From: Iceland
Registered: Jul 2006

posted 07-18-2018 10:21 AM

I am having a little problem.
Last 7 days on of our NC900c have 3 times went into standby for what seems no reason. It just go to standy, it does not matter if the lamp is on and show running or the lamp is off and no show running. It just randomly go to standby without any error.
If it matters the projector have build in NP-90MS01 (IMS1000) server.

The only thing i can see in the logs are in the operation log it says when this happens "Start Firmware(H)" and i am sure that would happens anyway if i would walk to the projector and manually set him to standby.
The error log does not show anything so it looks like the projector just thing it is in standby mode for normal reason.

What i thing is this must be some kind of electric flickering that are causing this.

Today i was running a show for testing purpose just to see if anything would happen and it actually happened and for the very first time the projector gave actual error that is "(701) Slave Status Fail(1,17)"
On the user manual that error means "Slave MCU is in unexpected status."
Then this error disappeared and the projector went to "regular" standby but the error was at least logged to the error log.
Even after i saw this error i still believe this is some kind of electric flickering.
And right now there is electric engineer on his way to check if there is some electric problem.
But meanwhile i just want to hear your thoughts, this probably have happened before to someone.

The projector is not connected to any UPS battery and it have been that way for almost 5 years and nothing like this have happens before. It is just very new problem that have been around for 7 days or so.

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Marcel Birgelen
Film God

Posts: 3357
From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2012

posted 07-18-2018 07:42 PM

It sure feels like some power instability or some failing PSU inside the projector.

You don't have a UPS at hand you could try to plug between the projector and the power feed? An NC900c can easily be run on a 2 kVA or higher UPS, which are pretty common. If the issue prevails, you know that the problem is most likely inside the projector.

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Mark Gulbrandsen
Resident Trollmaster

Posts: 16657
From: Music City
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-23-2018 07:59 AM

Also try reseating the plug in modules including the (top) CPU module. Yes, this could also be some sort of a power / power supply issue and it could be tricky to track down. Also, check the power supply logs very carefully at a known shut down time and see if they are normal, or slightly out of kilter.

Mark

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