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Posted October 31, 2016 at 22:00 GMT
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Nope!
You're quite right, four pole magnet and reed relay on the early ones and eight pole magnet with hall sensor on later models!
Interesting. Though it sounds like I'll be taking the Beomaster 5500 and the MCP 5500 up to another forum member, and we will do some testing with his known good working equipment. I'll keep this updated when I know more.
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Beoselecta, I think you're right on the opto coupler being the issue. I took the Beomaster to a friends place today, and we tried a few of his remotes on it, all worked just fine.
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it’s on it’s way! I hope it solves your problem, I’m pretty sure it will. It’s also not a bad idea to replace the three electrolytic caps that you can see on the main PCB (something to do while you’re waiting for the opto coupler. ;-)
It's been a while since I've posted, but that's because I don't have a great update as of yet. I did receive the Opto Coupler from Beoselecta, and I spend a night working with my Dad who was an electrical engineer for many years taking out the old one and putting in the new one. When I got back home and tried it out, the MCP worked the same. Still no volume control.
I did purchase a good working Beolink 1000, and I use that with the MCP for now. It's not the most ideal situation, but it's working for now. I expect to have some free time this coming Thursday, and my plan is to check the Coupler that I removed, to see if I can bench test it in some way, just to learn how it works. Also, if something goes wrong with it, it won't be a total loss since it's the one that I took out. From there I'll look at the one I put in and make sure it's properly aligned in the case, and see if all the solder joints are complete. (Sometimes my Dad's eye sight isn't as good as it used to be, and maybe there's just a slightly bad connection on one of the leads.)
I'm defiantly not giving up on this yet, just struggling to find time with the Holidays around.
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If you get stuck- you're always invited back up to St. Paul and between the 2MCPs and the new parts we should be able to get one working.
Make sure that your new opto component is not a fake.
Yes, there are counterfeits around...
Martin
It's not a fake! I bought 5 from the same source in Germany and I've used three and they all worked!
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