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I recently purchased an F40PH that has been upgraded to Protosound 3, and has strobes. Is there a way to change the strobe rate, perhaps to match the Protosound 3 F40PH I already own?

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Protosound 3 upgraded unit, #301:

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factory Protosound 3 unit, #251.67E00CAD-E32D-43DE-A0EC-008EAA7E0093

thanks!

-Mario

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Did you load the sound files AND the chain files?  Hard to believe the strobe didn't change to the desired rate with all the files loaded from the engine you're trying to match.  Also, it's possible that the files shown on the page for your engines don't match what was loaded into them to start.  You could also load the sound and chain files into the other engine to match the upgraded one.

If that fails, have you thought if perhaps interposing a little circuitry and creating your own strobe drive?  Since there is a signal you can tap off, I can think of a fairly simple method of sensing when the strobe is active and just driving your own strobe generator.

This is what happened after about a minute of the new sound file...

No sound, no movement. It would move in conventional only, but the fan would still pulse. So I opened her up and started with pulling the connector for the fans, also to no avail.

Then I went deeper... and now it’s truly dead. Only thing I get is track power to the lights. All the lights, at the same time.

So... I’ve called in a professional.

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To close the loop, this was not a true PS-3.  It was  a PS-2 engine repaired with a PS-32 board.  So the strobes would be different.  Remember with PS-32 you can't change the flash code, it must remain PS-32 flash to work bulbs.  You can use a PS-3 Sound file only.  Unfortunately the board is dead.  G

@GGG posted:

To close the loop, this was not a true PS-3.  It was  a PS-2 engine repaired with a PS-32 board.  So the strobes would be different.  Remember with PS-32 you can't change the flash code, it must remain PS-32 flash to work bulbs.  You can use a PS-3 Sound file only.  Unfortunately the board is dead.  G

Thank you for everything you’ve done so far. It has been a great help and I emailed you back, I have some questions before we proceed.

Thanks!

- Mario

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