So recently I acquired a CS7000, I tore out the M7300 brick and used a separate CH-721 control head in a remote mount configuration. So far everything seems to work fine, except when I turn the volume knob all the way off on the control head, the power cycles but the radio never turns off. It stays on all the time. I currently have a CAN terminator on the brick, but not on the control head. Could the lack of a CAN terminator on the CH-721 be the issue?
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M7300 power cycle issue
- Thread starter natedawg1604
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So the issue happened after I fully removed the radio brick from the consolette, I'm not using the consolette at all.
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UPDATE: I switched the control head to a different one and now it works fine. Not sure why that was happening with the other control head. I'm wondering if someone messed with a jumper wire effecting the power somehow.
There's no jumper. It's in how the control head is programmed. There are CS7000 console options that affect these operations.
It's in RPM. You'll have to find it.
It's in RPM. You'll have to find it.
So I'm pretty sure I had a bad CH-721; I tried to communicate with the problematic CH-721 in Hyperterminal and it wouldn't acknowledge any commands, and it also displayed a weird error message on the screen (besides the standard lost MRU when the CAN remote cable is unhooked). Anyways it's all working now that I switched control heads, so I'm quite happy in the end.
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