Russound Random Page Signal

[gacevich]

i have two russound cav6.6's that are used for whole house audio and some paging functionality. recently they have started randomly going in to "page mode" with no intentional signal. it is triggered most often by the turning on or off of a light switch. switches around my master bath are the most common culprits. its driving my wife crazy...a random buzz from all the speakers when someone (usually me at an hour before the sunrises) flips a light switch. if the light switch is flipped again immediately after the page signal, it does not reoccur. time of day doesn't seem to matter. my guess is that some sort of charge is building up in the electrical system and the switch flipping is releasing it.

anybody ever experienced a similar phenomenon or troubleshooting ideas?

 

[pkoslow]

I've never experienced this, but here are a couple ideas to try (provided you're not using the audio/video paging input for anything). Don't know if they will help or not?

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   1. Make sure that the audio paging gain is turned all the way down on the back of both CAV6.6s.

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   2. The audio sensing on the paging input is disabled when a 12v trigger is used. Try plugging a 1/8" plug into the paging "trigger in" on both units, but don't connect the plug to anything. As long as 12v isn't supplied to the plug, the units shouldn't go into page mode

Cheers,
Paul

 

[gacevich]

thanks paul. one of the troubleshooting paths i want to go down is to test the cat5 cables in the walls. i have a cat5 signal tester but it only accepts rj45 plugs. i am reluctant to put a rj45 jack on the end of each cat5 wire coming out of the wall, test the connection, then cut of the rj45 jack to i can then reconnect the cat5 via the 110 punchdown block to the uno...cable shortening seems bad.

one of my ideas is to make a cat5 test cable with a rj45 jack on one end and expose each wire on the other end. then temporarily splice the test cable to the wire coming out of the wall. test the cat5 run and remove the elk yellowjacket splices...no wire shortening. is there a better way to accomplish this?

 

[mustangcoupe]

thanks paul. one of the troubleshooting paths i want to go down is to test the cat5 cables in the walls. i have a cat5 signal tester but it only accepts rj45 plugs. i am reluctant to put a rj45 jack on the end of each cat5 wire coming out of the wall, test the connection, then cut of the rj45 jack to i can then reconnect the cat5 via the 110 punchdown block to the uno...cable shortening seems bad.

one of my ideas is to make a cat5 test cable with a rj45 jack on one end and expose each wire on the other end. then temporarily splice the test cable to the wire coming out of the wall. test the cat5 run and remove the elk yellowjacket splices...no wire shortening. is there a better way to accomplish this?

I would use a short Cat5 cable with one exposed with alligator clips on the end so you don't need the elk splices and it can be reused over and over.

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