Net 3 Nodes Bad Port

Hi Tom,

The DMX transceiver chip on the sleds is removable from a socket, and fairly easy to swap if you're OK working on electronics. Assuming this is a gateway with sleds, you can remove the screw, pull out the sled and you'll see a socketed chip on the board. If you have a known good one, you could pull it out from a "good" sled and put it into the "bad" sled, to prove that the chip is the problem. If it is, you can buy replacements from ETC or most electrical component suppliers (Digikey, Farnell, RS, and so on).

If it's anything other than that chip, it's more difficult to fix as the rest of the components are surface mount, so maybe easiest to replace the entire sled.

Hope that helps!

-Tom

Hi Tom,

The DMX transceiver chip on the sleds is removable from a socket, and fairly easy to swap if you're OK working on electronics. Assuming this is a gateway with sleds, you can remove the screw, pull out the sled and you'll see a socketed chip on the board. If you have a known good one, you could pull it out from a "good" sled and put it into the "bad" sled, to prove that the chip is the problem. If it is, you can buy replacements from ETC or most electrical component suppliers (Digikey, Farnell, RS, and so on).

If it's anything other than that chip, it's more difficult to fix as the rest of the components are surface mount, so maybe easiest to replace the entire sled.

Hope that helps!

-Tom

These are the touring node faces, so I don't have sleds. I was able to open the single node and I believe I see an opto chip on the bottom.

Should I call tech support to see if I'm correct? I saw that I can order the chips on the storefront, but I don't want to order the wrong thing.

Thanks,

Tom