[SML] Expression 3 Problem

[John Taylor]

Thank you David,

The venue rep was not there last night but will be there tonight. The 
company manager did not want me to leave the console on last night nor 
open it without the venue rep being there. I am sure the venue rep will 
agree with me on leaving the console on. When I got there last night and 
I had the board op load the show from disc. What I noticed was the clock 
was maintaining time, this leads me to think it will have the capacitor 
type of battery.

Thanks for everyone ones help.

JT


On 8/2/2017 2:23 PM, David Fox wrote:
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> I just talked to someone on our repairs department to get a reminder on this. Depending on the age of the Expression 3 it either has a battery backup or a series of super capacitors. You will know by looking at the board.
> See something that looks like a replaceable battery that is roughly quarter sized? That's the one to replace. We have them in stock available from a dealer if you can't find one locally.
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> If instead you see a series of capacitors (look like small silver pillars with black wrapping near the bottom center left of the processor board), these may just need to charge up. Leave the board on for about 24 hours and they should hold show memory for a week or longer.
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> Hope this helps
> David Fox
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> Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 14:24:31 -0500
> From: John Taylor <jt at techie.com>
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> Greetings wise list,
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> I jumped in at the last minute to help out a group whose LD was called
> away for a family emergency.
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> The venue has an older Expression 3. It works fine except it does not
> hold the show when powered down. I can save to disc and reload from disc
> but if you turn it off it loses the show. It is a simple show with only
> 20 Q's. I am going to try and write a Macro to make it easy for the
> operator to load each night but I doubt if it will save the Macro.
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> All suggestions welcome.
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> John 'JT' Taylor
> Semi Retired Lighting Designer
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