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by simon
Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:53 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

The Stratmangler wrote:Try another PSU first.
If you've got one of the Maplin SMPS with variable output jobbies that will do.
Yep, got one, I'll give it a try later.
by simon
Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:52 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

Can you try the hard drive as a slave in your PC and see if the contents can be read ? I did think of that but it will have to wait until the weekend when I have some time. Not sure how compatible it is with a PC though... Thats why I asked what its running :-) Gizza chance! :D Our work internet co...
by simon
Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:50 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

What was it running? Good question. I'm not sure - it's whatever it comes with, some form of Linux I think. It was running SqueezeCenter on SSOTS (SlimServer on Turbo NAS). This is part of the problem for me, messing around with tarballs and getting lucky finding webpages with script files and expl...
by simon
Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:44 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

pre65 wrote:Can you try the hard drive as a slave in your PC and see if the contents can be read ?
I did think of that but it will have to wait until the weekend when I have some time. Not sure how compatible it is with a PC though...
by simon
Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:30 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

I don't really know what this stuff is but I'm going to assume it's a hard disk with a PSU and if the PSU is ok then it seems to me the HDD is knackered. Which brings home the need to NEVER rely on a HDD for permanent storage. Hard disks are mechanical devices and most mechanical devices eventually...
by simon
Tue Oct 12, 2010 10:48 pm
Forum: Computer Audio
Topic: QNAP Death
Replies: 49
Views: 19977

QNAP Death

Whilst cooking tea last night the consumer unit rcd tripped. Eventually I traced the problem to the electronic ignition of the gas hob (not that I was using the ignition when the power cut happened). Once I'd isolated it the rcd was okay again. Bugger I thought, there's a job to sort out. Later on I...
by simon
Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:43 pm
Forum: Valves
Topic: Horizontal Orientation of Novals
Replies: 19
Views: 8638

Thanks for putting my mind at rest. Like you say, I've seen criteria for DH valves but this was new to me.
by simon
Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:21 pm
Forum: Valves
Topic: Horizontal Orientation of Novals
Replies: 19
Views: 8638

Horizontal Orientation of Novals

Does it matter what the horizontal orientation of novals is, with respect to the heaters? I wasn't aware there was an issue but I've read recently that the heaters should be at 12 o'clock, I guess so that the heat gets away. Problem is I have 3 No. 6N6P on a plate with the heaters at 9 o'clock as it...
by simon
Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:13 pm
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Supertweeter Filter Fine Tuning
Replies: 12
Views: 6138

After, but the filter is only a 2uF cap. I run the Fostex 208s fullrange, protect the supertwatters with the cap, then pad them down. There's a very simple sketch on this page (now out of date...) http://www.atrj13.dsl.pipex.com/na-t90a ... eeters.htm
by simon
Mon Oct 11, 2010 12:08 pm
Forum: Suppliers, recommended or not
Topic: wilmslow audio
Replies: 15
Views: 12451

I ordered a couple of L Pads a week last Thursday, they came last Thursday - a week. I seem to recall that when I bought some supertweeters a few years ago they took about a week too. Probably best to call, if you can hold of them.
by simon
Sun Oct 10, 2010 10:12 pm
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Supertweeter Filter Fine Tuning
Replies: 12
Views: 6138

Yeah, having used these L Pads I can't believe I've been messing around all this time.
by simon
Sat Oct 09, 2010 6:07 pm
Forum: Speakers
Topic: Supertweeter Filter Fine Tuning
Replies: 12
Views: 6138

They took a week to arrive and are now installed. It's so easy to play with the setting and get the right attenuation. I can't believe I've been messing around for so long trying to parallel up loads of resistors to give odd values. I simply kept turning them down until they sounded right, then I tu...
by simon
Wed Oct 06, 2010 4:23 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: 6S4S Monkey
Replies: 30
Views: 11424

Nick wrote:yes, but you could compensate by altering the pot. I mean connecting between the wiper and ground, so its just in parallel with the lower part of the pot, the pot is 100R, so at most 10k would make a 1% difference.
Doh! In parallel with the pot not in series! :)
by simon
Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:00 pm
Forum: Buying and Selling
Topic: rdh 4th ed
Replies: 9
Views: 4436

Know what you mean ed, I printed a copy out at work in batches and now have two lever arch files full of RDH4. Don't know how much they are on Amazon but abebooks have some, not cheap though (I suspect the cheaper ones are RDH3 judging by number of pages) http://www.abebooks.co.uk/search/sortby/3/an...
by simon
Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:52 pm
Forum: Everyones Projects
Topic: 6S4S Monkey
Replies: 30
Views: 11424

Oooh, me too. Must be missing something but wouldn't adding 10k alter the baising of both valves?