SAPBDDI won't hold channel lock

[Cristo]

My p-bddi has started doing something weird. When I play through it, it will suddenly lose its setting - the light starts flashing as if I had turned one of the knobs to change the program, but I haven't.

If it just sits there with no input signal this does not happen, it's only when there is an input signal. After a little time, suddenly the light starts flashing and, more importantly, the sound changes. Just like if I had reached down and twirled a knob a bit.

This makes it useless. If it was just a flashing light I would care but obviously a sudden sound glitch/change is no dice.

Anyone have a similar thing happen????

[basadam]

Battery?

Mine did a similar thing. At the time I did several things, changed battery, reprogrammed settings with one knob a milimeter away from its previous position... One of these seems to have fixed the problem, at least for now.

[Paulitics]

I've never had this happen but my first guess would be battery

[ehque]

Looks like your power. I used to do electronics and a robot that started doing weird things (stuttering, basically not taking instructions) was misdiagnosed with almost every problem in the book, until we realised that the battery was below specced voltage...

I'm betting the when the SA powers up, it suddenly draws too much current which kills the dying battery (and the SA), which then causes the SA NOT to draw power, causing a cycle which looks like flashing lights or stuttering.

[ob3ron]

maybe the sheer power of your lows turned the knob.

[bongomania]

Proper method for holding channel lock with a SAPBDDI:

[Cristo]

Wow, you had to work for that joke...

I'm not using a battery, it's powered off a one-spot. The problem is newer than the one-spot , but I guess it could be power related...

[bongomania]

Yeah, sorry about the lame joke.

[basadam]

Originally Posted by Cristo

I'm not using a battery, it's powered off a one-spot. The problem is newer than the one-spot , but I guess it could be power related...

Try using it with a fresh battery for a while only to see if it's a power related problem. I don't know anything about one-spot, maybe it cannot provide enough current. I at least know for a fact that PBDR's gain structure changes depending on the way it's powered (battery vs phantom-power vs adaptor).