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Post subject: What caused my Fender Sunn SR6520P Powered Mixer to overload
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 11:46 am
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Ok. I played a gig last Saturday night and half way through my third song my PA System started making weird garbled noises and cutting in and out. So I thought I had a bad guitar cable. I stopped the show for a few minutes switched the guitar cable and started again. It was fine for a few minutes and then it started doing it again. So I stopped again and this time I tried unhooking the one monitor that I had, thinking that maybe I just had too many things trying to run off of the PA. ( this of course was not it because I have had way more things hooked into this PA before but at that moment I was embarrassed and freaking out so I was trying anything.) Just so everyone knows, I had two acoustic guitars, a bass guitar and two mics plugged into the inputs of the PA and two 15" cabinets and one monitor for the output. Now back to the story, After unhooking the monitor we started playing again, got through one more song and the garbled noises and popping came back again. We stopped the show, I went to turn off the PA and it started smoking and then just stopped working. So as much as that sucked, we did have a back up PA. So we unhooked everything and put the new PA in place and started back to playing. Everything was going great, but then that PA started doing the same thing! So we stopped immediately because we didnt want to blow up our only other PA. So now, I am trying to figure out what happened? Was there something wrong with the electricity at the venue or was there a problem with our equipment? Has anyone ever had something like this happen to them before?


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Post subject: Re: What caused my Fender Sunn SR6520P Powered Mixer to over
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 12:10 pm
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It would be tough to hazard a guess.

If you can do an identical configuration at a different location then you know there something about the location and your PA that didn't get along.

If others play the same venue without issues then it is not straight forward to blame the venue for your PA failure.

Hope you had a warranty or insurance.

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