New ultrasonic vinyl cleaner in the works: Humminguru

Andy said:
Anyone have any power issues? The record had wet spots so meant to put on an extra dry cycle but selected standard cycle with no water in the trough. It just powered off, now there's no power at all.
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You may have tripped the overheat sensor. I'd unplug it, leave it for 30 minutes, and try again.
 
With the the g-sonic are you doing one drop per bath each time you pour the tank back in, or one drop in the bath to last until you change out the water after a session?
 
I’m guessing the latter! Also, anyone else getting bubbles / foam from the drain process with it? Wondering if it’s because I accidentally put in two drops 🤦🏼‍♂️😂
 
Bsdmr2 said:
With the the g-sonic are you doing one drop per bath each time you pour the tank back in, or one drop in the bath to last until you change out the water after a session?
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Yea just a drop once until/if I change out the water rather than reusing. But, honestly, I hardly ever do more than 4-6 records at a time so one fill up of water a session works for me (I'm not one of those folks redoing my whole collection - I already did that years ago when I got my first RCM - once going through a whole collection is enough; I'll only do an older record if it seems like it could benefit but all incoming records get the RCM followed by HG).

Ive never had excessive suds from one drop or even two (sometimes an extra escapes the dropper).
 
Bsdmr2 said:
With the the g-sonic are you doing one drop per bath each time you pour the tank back in, or one drop in the bath to last until you change out the water after a session?
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Bsdmr2 said:
I’m guessing the latter! Also, anyone else getting bubbles / foam from the drain process with it? Wondering if it’s because I accidentally put in two drops 🤦🏼‍♂️😂
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Yeah just the one for every tank of water! Sometimes I’ll put two if I get a very dirty second hand set of records but very rarely because as you say, lots of suds!

PS. Glad it arrived!
 
Joe Mac said:
Yeah just the one for every tank of water! Sometimes I’ll put two if I get a very dirty second hand set of records but very rarely because as you say, lots of suds!

PS. Glad it arrived!
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Thanks Joe - yes speedy service! Good results so far. Did a new batch of distilled water with one drop in the bath this time and it’s all good!
 
I had an issue with one blue note that just wouldn't spin unless I applied some right hand pressure for it to hit the roller. I'm guessing this isn't the same issue you have Joe and just that the pressing wasn't the full 12" - I've had no other issues to date. Fingers crossed you get yours sorted!
 
Bsdmr2 said:
I had an issue with one blue note that just wouldn't spin unless I applied some right hand pressure for it to hit the roller. I'm guessing this isn't the same issue you have Joe and just that the pressing wasn't the full 12" - I've had no other issues to date. Fingers crossed you get yours sorted!
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No I’ve had that with thin pressings and ones with bumps before, then it’s still running the record just isn’t spinning. What’s happening now is the unit is actually stopping. I’ve just fired an email off to them do we will see 🤞🏻
 
Joe Mac said:
Funny when it started happening I was thinking “I wonder if this is the same thing that happened to folsoms unit” lol!
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It's pretty close. All the cleaning modes didn't work but the drain and dry always worked.

If it saves you from waiting you could get a jump start and use one of my first troubleshooting posts as a cheat sheet. They're going to ask you to take the bottom off and unplug and plug back in the temp sensor wires. Then if that doesn't work they send you a new board. And if that does work you short circuit the water temp sensor and Bob's your uncle.
 
folsom_lives said:
It's pretty close. All the cleaning modes didn't work but the drain and dry always worked.

If it saves you from waiting you could get a jump start and use one of my first troubleshooting posts as a cheat sheet. They're going to ask you to take the bottom off and unplug and plug back in the temp sensor wires. Then if that doesn't work they send you a new board. And if that does work you short circuit the water temp sensor and Bob's your uncle.
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I’ll have to find your first post showing that. How does the bottom come off?
 
Joe Mac said:
I’ll have to find your first post showing that. How does the bottom come off?
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Peel back the rubber feet and then find an appropriately sized Philips head screwdriver. The plastic gets hung up so you will hear a bit of crinkling and crunching the first time, but nothing is attached to the bottom plastic plate that has the feet/legs. Just don't flex too much or it might crack in the middle.

Getting the wire unplugged was the hardest bit. That took a bit of nerve and some fingernails. To be honest I would take the whole board out and unplug one of the adjacent wires before trying the temp sensor wire. For that you just flex the side of the unit enough so that the control panel clears the hole cut in the side and then it's free and clear.
 
folsom_lives said:
Anyone with a knowledge of control boards want to give me a hand here? Do I pull the wires, the white housing, or some combination of the two...

I know I don't want to remove the white housing from the PCB since that looks soldered, but nothing seems to budge and I'm afraid the whole thing will come off anyway.

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Edit: I got it, But I had to unplug the wires next to it first and then somehow shrink my fat fingers down to wiggle the plug out. That bugger was stuck tighter than any of the others.
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@Joe Mac
 
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