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Hi all, another newbie question, but I am indeed a newbie.

My HDR appears to be fully operational after a spell in the gadget hospital. However, I feel like I remember reading something about internal lights, but can't remember where.

Anyway, the brain board has a constantly red flashing LED, which seems somehow ominous. But as far as I can work out, there are no actual problems. Does anybody know what this means, or if it means anything?

Cheers,
John

Hi John,

Both of mine have a flashing red LED on the brain board. Not sure what it means, but would appear to be normal.

Regards

John

Thanks! Yeah, I've not had any problems at all. Weird choice to indicate "everything's ok", but hey.

John T wrote:Thanks! Yeah, I've not had any problems at all. Weird choice to indicate "everything's ok", but hey.

It's not really as weird as much as it is inconclusive... it's actually a standard practice in most respects. To wit: a 'red' LED, indicating status - if it's off (dead), so is the associated circuitry, blinking indicating in working order (blinking, like a heart rate) or pulled full on (problem indicator)... there is also the opposite in use where some cases the blinking and full on use-cases are reversed - pulled on to indicate operational and blinking indicating something is awry, and usually the issue is identified by the sequence of the light blinking on-off indicative as a code. It really just depends on the manufacturer, and the firmware engineers implementation of the logic involved based on their development frameworks & timelines - decisions have to be made (and are done so accordingly - good, bad or indifferent)...

But I'd have to agree to a certain extent - however it is plausible that the Mackie engineers may have just designed a simple 'yes/no' type of logic indicator wherein it illuminates a working/non-working status for simple troubleshooting...

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