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From: bob urz on 5 Mar 2010 14:08
I was working a arena ice show this weekend and was running a spot. 15
minutes till curtain we did a com check and the com was crackling and
cutting out. There were 4 packs on a loop through (clearcom).

I was trouble shooting the trouble when the noise went away, but two
loop through com station went dead. I pulled the loop through cable out
of the last working pack and found an interesting discovery.
It was a neutrik female connector. the connector had recessed into the
shell. It was sort of making connection, then quit.

Some idiot had worked on this connector and somehow broke off part of
the strain relief the goes under the rear screw on plastic part.
without the full strain relief internally, there was nothing to keep
the female jack from recessing into the connector body. IDIOTS!

bob
From: Rupert on 5 Mar 2010 17:30
On Mar 5, 11:08 am, bob urz <so...(a)inetnebr.com> wrote:
> I was working a arena ice show this weekend and was running a spot. 15
> minutes till curtain we did a com check and the com was crackling and
> cutting out. There were 4 packs on a loop through (clearcom).
>
> I was trouble shooting the trouble when the noise went away, but two
> loop through com station went dead. I pulled the loop through cable out
> of the last working pack and found an interesting discovery.
> It was a neutrik female connector. the connector had recessed into the
> shell. It was sort of making connection, then quit.
>
> Some idiot had worked on this connector and somehow broke off part of
> the strain relief the goes under the rear screw on plastic part.
> without the full strain relief internally, there was nothing to keep
> the female jack from recessing into the connector body. IDIOTS!
>
> bob

I've seen this happen once in a while with Neutrik 1/4" plugs where
the strain relief clamp will get munched/deformed and the 1/4" will
start slipping into the shell. That can be problematic if it sinks in
more than a couple millimeters as the tip and sleeve can loose
contact. You can reform the plastic of the strain relief so it will
work again. But once it happens it will keep happening until the clamp
is replaced.

Rupert
From: Leon on 5 Mar 2010 18:43
On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:08:44 -0600, bob urz <sound(a)inetnebr.com> wrote:

>I was working a arena ice show this weekend and was running a spot. 15
>minutes till curtain we did a com check and the com was crackling and
>cutting out. There were 4 packs on a loop through (clearcom).
>
>I was trouble shooting the trouble when the noise went away, but two
>loop through com station went dead. I pulled the loop through cable out
>of the last working pack and found an interesting discovery.
>It was a neutrik female connector. the connector had recessed into the
>shell. It was sort of making connection, then quit.
>
>Some idiot had worked on this connector and somehow broke off part of
>the strain relief the goes under the rear screw on plastic part.
>without the full strain relief internally, there was nothing to keep
>the female jack from recessing into the connector body. IDIOTS!
>
>bob

I just wired up a few of those, and for some reason I can't get the connectors
completely tight, the little ring is free to spin, guess I'm not forceful enough
on compressing the plastic insides... maybe that bugged someone and he snapped
it to make it tight! I'm just ignoring it because the important part is quite
tight indeed.

Of course, Neutrik could have made it snap-in or some kind of bayonet thingy
inside, all the old connectors were screwed down but screws get lost or .. um...
screwed....

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