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<blockquote data-quote="Geoff Doane" data-source="post: 48916" data-attributes="member: 1155">Re: soundcraft europaThe big-guy soundco here in town bought one in 1990, I think.&nbsp; They were dealers and I bought a little Spirit 10.2 from them about the same time.&nbsp; I wonder if the one order contained Soundcraft&#039;s largest and smallest (at the time) consoles?According to the repair tech at the time, the trouble with the PSUs was that they had a line voltage meter on them.&nbsp; A well meaning system tech would take a Variac to the gig, and adjust the line voltage, as measured on the supply, to read 120 V.&nbsp; Trouble was, the meter was reading low, and he had actually boosted the voltage up to 130 or 140 V.&nbsp; Not a recipe for longevity for the power supplies.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />~:-(~:sad:&nbsp; I recall hearing from someone that if the end trim pieces were removed from the Europa, it could be shoehorned into a case that was 8 feet long, and fit across the inside of a truck.&nbsp; That may just have been a rumour however.I think the contemporary studio console to the Europa was the 3200.&nbsp; It also had a gate on every channel, although being a split console instead of in-line, was even bigger.&nbsp; (And I still think that console in Kristian&#039;s thread looks like a 3200. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />~:-D~:grin<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />GTD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoff Doane, post: 48916, member: 1155"] Re: soundcraft europa The big-guy soundco here in town bought one in 1990, I think. They were dealers and I bought a little Spirit 10.2 from them about the same time. I wonder if the one order contained Soundcraft's largest and smallest (at the time) consoles? According to the repair tech at the time, the trouble with the PSUs was that they had a line voltage meter on them. A well meaning system tech would take a Variac to the gig, and adjust the line voltage, as measured on the supply, to read 120 V. Trouble was, the meter was reading low, and he had actually boosted the voltage up to 130 or 140 V. Not a recipe for longevity for the power supplies.:(~:-(~:sad: I recall hearing from someone that if the end trim pieces were removed from the Europa, it could be shoehorned into a case that was 8 feet long, and fit across the inside of a truck. That may just have been a rumour however. I think the contemporary studio console to the Europa was the 3200. It also had a gate on every channel, although being a split console instead of in-line, was even bigger. (And I still think that console in Kristian's thread looks like a 3200. :D~:-D~:grin:) GTD [/QUOTE]

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