Saber Hand Wind Audio Player - Maintenance Guide
7.3 The Saber will not turn on
To turn on the player you press and hold the
power button, until the green light switches on.
(Make sure the SD Memory Card is removed)
Symptom
Possible Remedies
The Green light does not appear
(The light does not show at all)
- Charge the player. Turn the crank handle for 5 minutes.
(The red light should indicate charging. If the red light is
not seen, refer above to section
7.1Power supply problems)
.
- If possible, plug external DC power in player.
- Attempt to turn on on the player: press and hold the
power button, until the green light switches on, which should
occur in 4 to 7 seconds. Continue to turn the crank handle.
- If the green light does not appear even briefly, continue to
turn the crank handle for another 5 minutes and retest. If there
is still no green light appearing, replace the internal battery.
- Replace power switch pusher. (Small black button)
The Green light only appears when
connected to external DC power
- Check the internal battery wire is correctly connected to the
green circuit board
- Check the internal battery condition. Please follow the
instructions in the Battery section on page 5.
The green light flashes briefly then
goes out.
- Continue to apply charge to the player by turning the crank
handle while during the start up sequence.
- Make sure the power button is not held down too long.
(Continuously holding down the power button too long will
turn off the player)
- Confirm that there is a minimum of 20Mb of available (free)
space in the internal memory available for the play list.
- It is possible that file corruption may have occurred due to
insufficient power being available.
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Reformat the internal memory of the Saber player to
FAT32 by connecting it to a computer, using the
computers format command. NOTE: This will delete
all the audio files on the player.
- Replace power switch pusher. (Small black button)
The green light appears, and keeps
flashing at high speed.
- Check that the correct audio files are loaded onto the player
- The player can take up to 4 minutes to start.
The green light appears. It then
flashes at high speed. The green
light then becomes steady.
(No audio is heard)
- Turn up volume.
- Check the correct audio files are loaded onto the player
- Reload the audio files onto the Saber player
- Check that there is no headphone connected to player
- Check the speaker is connected to the green circuit board
- Press the reset button (recessed on the front panel)
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