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post #16 of 22
10/17/10 at 2:37pm

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post #17 of 22
1/10/11 at 6:58pm

Add me to the list of people that registered here because this exact thing happened to them.  So did any of you guys ever fix your Firebox?

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post #18 of 22
1/13/11 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by Hobz View Post

Add me to the list of people that registered here because this exact thing happened to them.  So did any of you guys ever fix your Firebox?



I was waiting for a sample to come from national semiconductor and it never came.  I will try to fix it sometime, but i bought a new interface, so i have kinda forgot about the firebox. 

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post #19 of 22
10/18/11 at 4:06pm

did anyone get their firebox working again? I have the exact same problem. tried replacing the blown capacitor and it just blew again. power led never came on either...

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post #20 of 22
10/22/11 at 5:10pm

I own 2 of these units and they both still work.  One of them was used pretty heavily as a DAC/preamp and was on all the time for at least a few years with no problems. 

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post #21 of 22
1/7/12 at 4:33am

Hi

 

Just managed to get my Presonus working again, after much the same problem as described in this thread. Couldn't get any help from Presonus (I asked 'em....) so for the good of Presonus kind, here are my experiences in a picture:

 

how I fixed my presonus firebox.jpg

 

Many thanks to the contributors here, who lead me to believe  I could fix it. 

Hope this is helpful.

 

Regards

Greg

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post #22 of 22
4/3/12 at 6:10pm

This is right up my alley. I just had the same issue. Got the Firebox a few years ago (2009-ish). recently, it started getting very noisy. I think I was using only the firewire for power, but not sure. Looked at it eventually, a bit after the noise started, and noticed the power supply connector fell out (maybe when I pulled it out to look at it???). Put it back in and there were more noises. Turned it off (unplugged it). A few days later decided I needed it again and plugged it all back in. POP! Smelled bad too. JUST happened. Going to dig in and find out . . . probably the same thing everyone else found. Sounded and smells like a capacitor. Probably overstressed. Either a too young US engineer designed it, or, more likely, slapped together at some offshore company (will try to hold my tongue here). anyway, more to come...

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