Internal lights - Brain board

[John T]

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

[Jondav1120]

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

[John T]

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

[doktor1360]

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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