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1200a firewire problem
My 1200 a Panny deck is no longer outputting via the firewire port. As a matter of fact, with the deck plugged in hard drives on other firewire ports won’t open. If i unplug the 1200 from the firewire, the firewire hard drives work fine. I’m afraid my firewire card is f****d but I’m hoping it’s a menu item or is there a diagnostic menu that can tell me if it’s a fried board?
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6 Replies
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Dan,
Kind of sounds like you fried your firewire card by plugging or unplugging it with the power on! The only way I know of field testing it would be to try and plud a firewire camera in and try to play out to it. If it works, it’s something else.
Otherwise it’s a trip to Panasonic’s repair facility where they’ll have it for a week or more, charge you $260 and probably tell you nothings wrong or it’ll cost $5000 to replace the board!
Isn’t this business fun?
JS
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I have a large label on the top of my deck warning users of this issue. I make sure each client is fully aware of the potential problem, and the replacement cost. I wonder why a broadcast product would be so susceptible to this problem. You would think they would place a fuse or breaker on the back of the deck to protect the firewire board. Perhaps a future product will include some protection?
Chris Bell
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great idea, won’t help me now. What i need is a little cottage industry chip replacement service for blown Panasonic 1200a firewire cards. Anybody know of some guy with a solder gun and experience with this problem?
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Hi,
Solution for hot swapping FireWire cable and not frying FW board is to use FW adapter cable that does not have conduct power but just signal. This is working very well at AbelCine Tech and each deck we rent has that adapter.
Mariusz Cichon
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Can you provide a link to a the product you are using? Brand, model number? Thanks.
Chris Bell
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Hi Chris,
Here is a link: https://www.mediumblend.com/abelstore/customer/product.php?productid=1197&cat=185&page=1
Mariusz
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