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  18. not everyone likes the dd-1? some rude comments

    in SMD Distortion Detector (DD-1) Topics

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    Yes we have seen lots of Sundown amps go into protect after using the DD-1 all of them had similar damage in the protect circuit.

    It may be a defect in SOME DD-1 units, or the way it was used, or some other unforeseen condition that exists to cause the problem. I don't know, I do not own a DD-1, don't need it, I have oscilloscopes.

    Which sundown amps?? I can put my finger on a lot of amps my dd-1 and cc-1 has tuned...

    5 different Sundown 4500s, some of them multiple times because things in the install have been changed.

    2 Sundown NS-1s

    1 Sundown 200.4

    1 Sundown 100.2

    2 Sundown 100.4

    and theres probably been more that Im forgetting.

    All amps still working 100%, and hell I probably have misc videos doing so.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Z57r1NsEI

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJAlKetlUY

    just proof your full of it.

    I was quoting db-r lol

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  19. not everyone likes the dd-1? some rude comments

    in SMD Distortion Detector (DD-1) Topics

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    No the damage type that is occurring is a VIOLENT type of damage, I don't know how else to describe it. You could not mess up the protect circuit by clipping the amp.... It's f******* up a part of the protect circuit in the amp. I don't know why, DONT CARE WHY, DD-1 is not my product. I'll let Steve Mead and Tony DAmore figure that one out. I just know what it's messing up, don't know how/why.

    You CANNOT damage the protect circuit in the manner that it is being damaged in these cases, by turning the amp gains up.

    I didn't say the DD-1 was going to mess up ALL Sundown Amps, I said it may have messed up .0005% of them. And it could have been user error or something. The particular damage done, was ONLY DONE by users of DD-1's and/or people who touched the +12V wire to the case of the amp, about 50% of the cases, they said it happened right after they setup the amp with the DD-1. That's what I said.

  20. not everyone likes the dd-1? some rude comments

    in SMD Distortion Detector (DD-1) Topics

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    I read the whole thing....this is what he's saying about the damage

    Yes we have seen lots of Sundown amps go into protect after using the DD-1 all of them had similar damage in the protect circuit.

    It may be a defect in SOME DD-1 units, or the way it was used, or some other unforeseen condition that exists to cause the problem. I don't know, I do not own a DD-1, don't need it, I have oscilloscopes.

    Only other input I could add to this, is that we have seen similar damage to the amps in question when someone uses "grounded" RCA jacks or when someone has grounded RCA Jacks AND touches the + batt wire to the case of the amp by accident.

    So I don't know if maybe people that are using the DD-1 and it sends the amp in protect are trying it over an over for an hour trying to figure out why it keeps going into protect and that is what damages the protect circuit or if it is doing ALL of the damage to the protect circuit at once

    does the DD-1 have a multi-way 1/8th inch jack that has the RCA outputs/inputs AND the + DC power (to charge or power the unit) on the same plug? If so, while plugging that in, the plug goes by the contacts and if the +DC part connects to the RCA Shield or Tip part, could and WILL cause the problem.

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