Sticky Fader Diagnosis?

[Soundchasm]

Hello All,

I've been lurking for a long time and I'm glad to see so many names here. Here's my question...

Did we ever figure out what was wrong with our sticky faders? I re-read the Spanish language fader replacement document, and I wondered if it might be less trouble to repair the ones we've already got. Since Marc is making such great progress with his project, I know I'll want 24 working faders when that time arrives.

Thanks,
Greg

[anyhorizon]

Hi Greg,

Nice to see you here.
This thread is worth a read if you hadn't already seen it.

Peter

[Soundchasm]

I did read that. I was scared to adopt the conclusion that a bad chip will affect all faders in a bank, seemingly in full on or off position. But at the speed I read it at, that was my takeaway.

My symptoms are individual faders that repeatedly get stuck more or less where they were at when the board woke up.

It'd be nice to be able to pull a fader and know the motor has gone belly up, or some component in its assembly is likely guilty. Right now we're stuck with (pun intended) "I know what's wrong, your fader is broken".

[Marc Girard]

I've got the same problem. Fader #1 and #12 are behaving weird. Fader #1 sticks a infinity (the lowest position of the throw) and can't be moved unless we do a full hardware reset. Fader #12 just stops responding! I read the spanish doc on how to replace the faders, it doesn't scare me but I don't understand spanish much! I might miss a few details here!

Thanks for the kind words!

Marc

[Soundchasm]

Marc,
I think one possibility was turning the fader motors off and then back on. That kept you from having to fight a fader and perhaps really break it! I really want to be one of the first in line for your project, so please take all the time you need to get it right. I'll pony up whatever the cost is.

If you can get 24 faders, meters, mute, solo, select, pan and track arm you've hit a home run for V1.0.

Thanks,
Greg

[Petersueco]

I have to say that there are very different fader problems. In my board fader 12 (again) is completely dead, no response and no control at all. Other faders get stuck in different positions (infinity, half way up and all the way up) and those probably can be fixed with some maintenance protocol that I don' know.

I sure need to get some new faders when Marc and Frank are ready !!!

Peter Holmquist.

[anyhorizon]

That fader no. 12 sounds like the band could be broken.

Peter

[Soundchasm]

I just had a thought as ridiculous as the rest that fill my mind during waking and sleeping hours.

What if we asked Alps what's wrong with our individual sticky faders? What if it's a well-known, thoroughly documented problem? Even if they say the gonkulator wears out, then we can decide if we want to become gonkulator experts.

Anybody want to take the lead on this, or should we generate as many inquiries as possible as we shop for an answer we like?
Thanks,
Greg

[fishtail]

Hmmm, pretty odd, mine is fader 12 as well. It is more on the line of a psycho fader, move it slightly and it jumps. As I have mentioned before, it has now become my default drum group fader which I can adjust via small increments in th edit window.
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