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[Elite Pete]

I'm on MX5Nutz which is good, Landyzone, good, MGRover forum, so so but nothing compares to OOF

[henryd]

I thought the Merc forums where full of posts about new places to find rust 

Sorry could not resist. 

Back on track. I am on an Astra forum, it is huge with a fair bit of tech knowledge, but sadly does have the chav element aswell.

You're not wrong there,luckily mine was built before the bean counters started cost cutting.

[omegod]

I thought the Merc forums where full of posts about new places to find rust 

Sorry could not resist. 

Back on track. I am on an Astra forum, it is huge with a fair bit of tech knowledge, but sadly does have the chav element aswell.

You're not wrong there,luckily mine was built before the bean counters started cost cutting.

The 190e was one of the last proper mercs, built like a tank from proper steel not recycled ladas!

[Kevin Wood]

It's my beloved Arcam Alpha 10 amp, a while ago the power indicator light started to flick from green (on) to amber (standby) every few seconds. At first it was just doing it when it was on standby but then began to flick when in use. I've had it for about 15 years now and it always sounded fantastic, I'm really missing listening to music properly and not through a bloody ipod dock 

Can't really justify spending our meagre cash on a new or second-hand one at the moment, just wanted to know whether it was dead or not...

Service manuals are readily available for the ARCAM stuff. 

So, does it just drop to standby or is there a flashing red/amber fault indication?

[henryd]

I thought the Merc forums where full of posts about new places to find rust 

Sorry could not resist. 

Back on track. I am on an Astra forum, it is huge with a fair bit of tech knowledge, but sadly does have the chav element aswell.

You're not wrong there,luckily mine was built before the bean counters started cost cutting.

The 190e was one of the last proper mercs, built like a tank from proper steel not recycled ladas!

Mines a w124 Eclass,they suffer with front wing rot but otherwise pretty good.

[jonnycool]

It's my beloved Arcam Alpha 10 amp, a while ago the power indicator light started to flick from green (on) to amber (standby) every few seconds. At first it was just doing it when it was on standby but then began to flick when in use. I've had it for about 15 years now and it always sounded fantastic, I'm really missing listening to music properly and not through a bloody ipod dock 

Can't really justify spending our meagre cash on a new or second-hand one at the moment, just wanted to know whether it was dead or not...

Service manuals are readily available for the ARCAM stuff. 

So, does it just drop to standby or is there a flashing red/amber fault indication?

Just having a look now, haven't switched it on for quite a while....

Yes, when I switched it on it turned green as normal, then it started switching between green and amber, then went to a flashing red and stayed there 

....it's still doing the 'flicking' thing as well, you can hear a relay switching every now and then and it flashes amber for a second then goes back to red.

Service manuals may be available Kevin, but what I know about electonics could be written on a grain of rice, it may as well be written in Chinese 

[pscocoa]

我們瞭解您的問題

[Kevin Wood]

Service manuals may be available Kevin, but what I know about electonics could be written on a grain of rice, it may as well be written in Chinese 

That's where I might be able to help.

This is what it says about that flashing light. Maybe this will make sense as you're watching it power up:

Don't worry about the technical terms, but see if you can recognise the pattern of behaviour as one of the following:

On power up, protection should be engaged. This is checked after 3 seconds. If this isn't happening, the unit shuts down with flashing red.

If protection does not clear after about 16 seconds on power-up, the unit shuts down to flashing red. This is usually caused by a voltage offset.

Any main amp power loss detected causes a shut down to flashing red.

Any RF detected causes immediate shutdown to flashing red.

Any protection fault detected after power up results in flashing amber for about 16 seconds max. If it has not cleared, shut down to flashing red. Protection faults are caused by voltage offsets of over-current. Over-current should latch resulting in a  shutdown after 16 seconds. Voltage offsets should clear themselves if brief.

A temperature fault results in the power LED flashing slow amber and can last indefinitely until it clears. When it clears flashing will speed up until protection times back in.

[TheBoy]

I frequent the Rover forums and some of the Audi ones a bit.  The Audi one is full of tumbleweed, sprinkled with 'dangle berries', the Rover one is all about bodykits and getting 400bhp from a 1.4 restricted K series

Hmm. I've seen 253BHP from a K series. I'd be surprised if there was any more to come, TBH, seeing what that poor engine had done to it.

You can get 1000bhp from it, apparently.  This is done by fitting an electric supercharger (compact version, about 5cm square, pulling about 100mA) and a special chip that fits between the Coolant temp sensor and the main ECU, again the compact variety, about 5mm long cylinder, 2mm diameter.

It must be true, and the blue LEDs add another 300bhp.

[jonnycool]

Service manuals may be available Kevin, but what I know about electonics could be written on a grain of rice, it may as well be written in Chinese 

That's where I might be able to help.

This is what it says about that flashing light. Maybe this will make sense as you're watching it power up:

Don't worry about the technical terms, but see if you can recognise the pattern of behaviour as one of the following:

On power up, protection should be engaged. This is checked after 3 seconds. If this isn't happening, the unit shuts down with flashing red.

If protection does not clear after about 16 seconds on power-up, the unit shuts down to flashing red. This is usually caused by a voltage offset.

Any main amp power loss detected causes a shut down to flashing red.

Any RF detected causes immediate shutdown to flashing red.

Any protection fault detected after power up results in flashing amber for about 16 seconds max. If it has not cleared, shut down to flashing red. Protection faults are caused by voltage offsets of over-current. Over-current should latch resulting in a  shutdown after 16 seconds. Voltage offsets should clear themselves if brief.

A temperature fault results in the power LED flashing slow amber and can last indefinitely until it clears. When it clears flashing will speed up until protection times back in.

Pm sent Kevin

[Debs.]

You can get 1000bhp from it, apparently.  This is done by fitting an electric supercharger (compact version, about 5cm square, pulling about 100mA) and a special chip that fits between the Coolant temp sensor and the main ECU, again the compact variety, about 5mm long cylinder, 2mm diameter.

[yoof]

Wickid innit.....lol

[/yoof]

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[dbug]

Just noticed on one of the Jag forums . . .

Administrator - 68 posts
Global moderator - 152 posts

Christ - I've done 15 posts already!!

Not like OOF eh 

[TheBoy]

Just noticed on one of the Jag forums . . .

Administrator - 68 posts
Global moderator - 152 posts

Christ - I've done 15 posts already!!

Not like OOF eh 

Where do I sign up

[bob.dent]

Just joined Ford Mondeo Owners Club (seeing as how I now drive one!!) and it although there are plenty of registered members, the place is like a morgue! I posted in the newbie's section and it was 24 hours before I had one solitary reply.
There is a fair amount of info on there but members posting technical problems get very little or no response. As for general chat, well..............

[jerry]

I go on the TEOC forum now and again for the toyota estima and must say that theyre both very friendly and helpful. Their technical help is always very good and whilst the gen chat is always friendly it doesnt cover the vast range of topics that this one does  You get a pack sent out to you with a tech help DVD and some goodies for full membership with TEOC but think I paid £20 but have been on there 4/5 years now. Only other forums I frequent are support forums for my lad's aspergers and dystonia buttheyre both good. Oddly enough, whilst Im on these forums and a Baggies football one, I would never join Facebook or so called social network sites though.