Hi,

Half an hour ago approximately I tried to turn on my Lumagen VisionHDP videoprocessor. An essential gadget that is the center of my hometheater, without it no picture will show on my screen. Tried to turn it on the usual way via the remote, but nothing happened....

Then tried to exchange the power connector for it with another one for another device of my hometheater, at the main power outlets. And thank God it worked !! I had problems with the Lumagen right from the beginning when I got it august last year, it was faulty and got exchanged or repaired by the dealer who sold it. Now I thought that a similar problem had occurred.

Phew, just saved the cost of a 1200 €/1800+ USD piece of equipment :eek:....

Learned from the incident: check power connections to all your equipment !

Thomas

Thats way cool Thomas. I did something similar on my Lexicon DC1, DC2 and almost my MC1. My front Left channel would drop out occasionally and then would just not produce sound at all, no matter what I tried. Different cables, different amps different combinations nothing. First it happened to the DC1, pulled my hair out. I thought the in wall wiring somehow had caused a fault. So I got a DC2. Worked great then out of the blue the same thing...intermittent front left channel dropping out then gone all together. Got an MC1 for a good deal hooked it up no problems for a month or two then no front left channel. I wanted to throw up. Went through all the same steps again to no avail. Bought an oscilloscope and learned how to use it to see if my opamp was fried or what, it wasn't, and then spent 4 hours tracking down what eventually turned out to be a bad wire that went from the amp to the wall. It would work fine and then without being moved or anything would just stop transmitting signal. Needless to say I really felt STUPID after going through three processors and countless hours of what I thought was careful construction and troubleshooting. DOH!

By the way Thomas every chance I get to say thanks for the Infinite Baffle help you gave me I will. Every time someone watches a movie for the first time in my theater and the IB does it's thing - the look on their face - I always tell them some crazy scientist engineers came up with the idea and point them to your site. Thanks again

I have a Lumagen HDP and I was having the same problem. I would have to unplug it from the back and recycle it to get it to power up. I changed my start macros on my program for the remote so that the Lumagen is the last to power up and the first to power off. This seems to have fixed the problem as the unit is in standby when the sub amps power up and back in standby before they power down. And I even have a Monster HT5000.......tells you how effective that is for isolation.

Doc

I never shut mine off, two years running no problems.

Athanasios

That's what I would prefer, but when the sub amps kicked in, the Lumagen would freeze up quite often. This seemed to be the most effective way around it so far.

Doc

I have a Lumagen HDP and I was having the same problem. I would have to unplug it from the back and recycle it to get it to power up. I changed my start macros on my program for the remote so that the Lumagen is the last to power up and the first to power off. This seems to have fixed the problem as the unit is in standby when the sub amps power up and back in standby before they power down. And I even have a Monster HT5000.......tells you how effective that is for isolation.

Doc

That's what I would prefer, but when the sub amps kicked in, the Lumagen would freeze up quite often. This seemed to be the most effective way around it so far.

Doc

Did Microsoft write the software? :eek:

Are all you guys on the same firmware?


Mike

Oh I also have two power conditioners and have all my digital on one and all my analog on the other. Lumagen is on my Digital one.

Athanasios

rabies_70,

You must confuse me with another Thomas ! I do not know anything about infinite baffles, though I get a rough idea by your description. I do not have an own site, only one togehter with my spouse but that one is about our British shorthair cats !

Anasthasios and others,

I have almost all my hometheater gear connected to one main power strip ( power board, distribution board... seem to be many english words for this ?). The strip has a main power switch which is off when nothing is running and that feels kind of safe. So my Lumagen would have no power than either. However, an electrical device should be able to switch on/off ! I have now set the Lumagen to power on automatic when electric power is supplied, hope this helps. Judging from your stories however the Lumagen seems to be a fragile device. Not at all like most CRT pj's that seem to be built to last a nuclear war.