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Author Topic: DTS won't kick in Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-22-2003 07:31 PM                        Thanks Mark I did indeed have film in it while I was adjusting it. I'll go back and do it again. After looking through the "obsolete computer pile" I did run into an identical PS which I will remove from that computer and place in the "valuable junk" pile.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-22-2003 08:00 PM                     Good idea!! Save any pertinent parts you can lay your hands on for that unit. Mark  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 12-23-2003 01:01 AM                     Maybe this is too simple. One of my readers wouldn't pick up anything, so I blasted it with the air compressor and it worked fine afterward.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-23-2003 09:42 AM                        On occasion I will blow out my reader with canned air, just to knock the dust off. I did that one time and a seed came out. I haven't planted it yet.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2003 10:10 AM                        The saga continues.... Got the voltage level set properly and ran a film. The DTS unit would not kick in. I rebooted, pulled the discs, and reinserted, etc etc. Nothing. It just sat there blinking at me. Finally about half the way through the film it kicked in, without me doing anything. Is it possible that the cold is affecting the DTS unit? It stays rather cool in the basement and I was wondering if maybe it was too cold or maybe cold + condensation or something. I think I'll pull it apart and squirt some lectronic parts cleaner on the connections. This is very mysterious  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2003 08:38 PM                     If it kicked in 1/2 way through could it be it kicked in when it changed disks which might be indicative of a drive issue  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2003 10:56 PM                        Even if it played the set up disk and will play "reel files" from the keyboard?  |  IP: Logged

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