H8000FW PSU noise

[HerrSteiner]

Hello,

I bought a new H8000FW and notice a higher pitched whine emitted from the corner where the power cord goes in so I guess its from the PSU. Its not in the signal path. I am in Germany and the PSU is correctly set to 220v. Is it a condenser failing or expected behavour?

Cheers,

Malte

[nickrose]

Guten Tag (oder Abend) Herr Steiner

There is a switching power supply located behind the power cord, but it should run at too high a frequency to be audible.

I would suggest you run with it for a while to see if it portends other issues. If it does not, and you have no bats in your family, it's probably in ordnung.

[HerrSteiner]

Hi,

thanks for the quick response. Strangely that noise is not constant, it goes away after a while, but its always there when the H8000FW is freshly switched on.

I noticed that my Eventide had a identity crisis once, while starting it believed to be a H8000A according to the bitmap shown during the boot and missing Firewireoptions in the settings. A reboot settled that and Firewire was back.

Cheers,

Malte

[HerrSteiner]

Hi,

still not happy with my unit, it now sometimes not only forget while booting its the H8000FW, I got Bus errors like

Bus Error occured (E12)

Program: 003440

Data: C7007C

It always can boot somehow with several rebooting but it didnt feel like a reliable device, which is problematic at this price. Plus the display starts to develop a kind of pixel smear in the upper right corner, which seems depending on the cursor position. When the cursor is on the right colum, the smear goes away, when I move to the left colum of parameters its there.

[nickrose]

It does sound like you have some hardware problems. I would suggest that you return it to Eventide (support@eventide.com) or to your dealer.

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