Behringer DCX2496 just died. Any thoughts?

[sfdoddsy]

After not touching it for a long time, I thought I might just tweak the bass levels on my three way active dipole. Prior to fiddling, I turned the DCX off, and then back on.

Instead of a cheery welcome screen, I now have a unit that merely gives a dim pulsing screen with no characters at all. The dim pulse on the screen was matched with a sonic pulse through the speakers which I sincerely hope has not damaged my speakers.

Any Behringer experts care to suggest a remedy or a diagnosis?

I have tried a reset to factory by press the two page keys while powering up, and the recovery thingie by press the Input A button while powering up.

Nada.

All suggestions grumpily entertained.


Steve

[capslock]

Have a look at www.audiotreff.de. It seems the DXC suffers from two common hardware problems:

a) pcb solder points of the symmetrical I/O break -> not your problem

b) power supply electrolytics of poorest quality, die after 1-2 years, result: pulsing sound, sometimes also display and control logic malfunction -> sound familiar?

[capslock]

http://www.rahaso.de/foren/msg.php?f=audiotreff_selbstbau&idx=46602&

[sfdoddsy]

b) does sound familiar. I guess I'll contact Behringer about a repair.


:evil:

[capslock]

http://people.freenet.de/hornroehre/netzteil01.jpg

for a pic of the culprit - you could probably do the soldering yourself

[sfdoddsy]

Alas, I am a klutz. Thanks for the info though.

Steve

[sfdoddsy]

Well, it's fixed. I sent it to a Behringer repair place and it was back in a couple of days. They said they modified the power supply and had heard of the problem before.

Interestingly, it wass still not working when I got it back. I'm in a 220V country, but was running off a 110V transformer. Apparently Behringer stuff has a flexible power supply and when I ran it directly off 220V all was fine.

Perhaps I could have saved myself $80.

Cheers

Steve