Jakester Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 I thought you might want to laugh at my misfortune. I was doing a PA gear test before our gig at the weekend, but my main mixer was in the house and the speakers in the outbuilding. I had my phone so I thought I’d just rig up the phone via my mini mixer into the PA speakers to test them (it hadnt been used since last summer as we’d used other people’s PA). Anyway, plugged it all in, fired it up - (firing up being the operative term as we’ll see). “Hmm, that’s a funny noise,” thought I. Checked all the connections, but only a low level hum that was getting louder. Then I saw it. Smoke from the mini mixer. Whipped out the power cable and more smoke emanated from the plug socket. I looked at the plug - I hadn’t? I had. I’d plugged in a 9v DC wall wart into the 15v AC socket. Basically I’ve just burned out my spare mixer. Doubly frustrating as it had a 2 channel USB interface and my wife was just getting into podcasting/audiobooks and was finding the XR18 a bit complex. A pic for your delectation: 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oopsdabassist Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Nice job. 🤕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Roast mini mixer. Needs more salt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky 4000 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Judging by the smoke, I'd say it's definitely a hardware problem. 😬 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinnyman Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Bit of gaffa tape and she’ll be right....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teebs Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 I sympathise Is it fixable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmccombe7 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 WD40 give it a few minutes and wipe clean. Right as rain. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakester Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 6 hours ago, fleabag said: Roast mini mixer. Needs more salt There was a lot of salty language! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jakester Posted March 10, 2020 Author Share Posted March 10, 2020 51 minutes ago, Teebs said: I sympathise Is it fixable? I suspect not, if only on a cost basis. I may drop Peavey a line though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stub Mandrel Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Really odd... a 15V AC input should stand up to 9V dc without going pop. The damage should be limited to that power regulator chip as the worst case is that 9V gets through it to the circuit board (that big diode should prevent any reverse polarity) which is pretty much what it expects anyway. Should be fixable, even if it means bodging in an alternative regulator. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JottoSW1 Posted March 10, 2020 Share Posted March 10, 2020 Frying Tonite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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