AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Important Safety Instructions The lightning flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage “ within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufficient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.
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Should any of the following irregularities occur during use, immediately switch off the power, disconnect the power cord from the AC outlet and contact Atlas Sound. Do not to attempt to continue operation with the product as this may cause fire or electric shock: •...
Small, compact, and engineered for reliability, the Atlas Sound AA100PHD will provide years of service and flexibility in background music and paging applications.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Front Panel 1. Power Switch This push switch (On/Off) supplies power to the mixer amplifier. 2. Power Indicator This LED illuminates Blue when the power switch is turned On. 3. Signal Indicator When the signal LED illuminates Green, input signals are connected to the amplifier. The Signal LED is pre the input level controls.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Front Panel 7. Input 1-4 Level The rotary control varies the amplitude of the signal fed to the amplifier input. Turn clockwise to increase and counter-clockwise to decrease the signal level. 8. Master Level The Master Level control will raise or lower all the input channels together.
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Inputs 2, 3 & 4 can be remotely activated or selected. When any of the RIS input control port pins are shorted to ground, the signal from that input selected will be routed to the amplifier main mix bus. The RIS control port was designed to work with the Atlas Sound WPD-RISRL accessory item.
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Connections to a 10K pot requires three conductors and a minimum of 22 gauge wire. The return ports can be paralleled together if one ATS004805 RevA 3/14 pot is to control all inputs. The AAPHD series remote level design is based on 10VDC Return VCA type topology. Atlas Sound accessory level controls WPD-RISRL or WPD-VC10K can be used to achieve this.
AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Rear Panel 15. Multi Function DIP switch Zone 2 Assign Mute RCV Input 2 Input 1 Input 4 Input 3 Input 2 Input 1 Input 4 Input 3 Input 2 Phantom Phantom Line Line/Tel...
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Using the PHD Mixer Amplifier Diagnostic System The AAPHD Series features a patent pending Amplifier Self Diagnostic System. The PHD (Push Here Diagnostic) is simple to use and is very effective running a 70V distributed system diagnostic test to assure the amplifier has the proper load applied. The proper load will assure a long lasting trouble free audio experience with your new AAPHD Series amplifier.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier How To Trouble Shoot Your Speaker System If The Limit LED Is Illuminating LED OFF TEST PASS The Limit LED should never be constantly illuminated or damage may occur to the amplifier or sound system. If the Limit LED comes on steadily during use or during the PHD test there are a few common fault conditions to check if using a 70V distributed audio system.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier How To Trouble Shoot Your Speaker System If The Limit LED Is Illuminating C. If the first two check points are OK, there is probably a short in the wiring of the speaker system. Common causes include staples through the wire and the wire cut by metal conduit causing a short to ground.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Connecting a Remote Level Control with Remote Input Select (RIS) Remote location of a level control can be accomplished via the Remote Level control port. You can control Input 1 or Inputs 2, 3, and 4.
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This is ideal because the result is clean audio with no chance of picking up interference. It is intended to be used with the optional wall controller WPD-RISRL from Atlas Sound. The WPD-RISRL allows selection of three inputs (not Input 1) with ability to adjust the level for each input selected.
Pre Out Chan 4 Chan 3 Mute Sens from the front panel. Replace the knobs with security covers, Atlas Sound part number AAVCC-5, available in quantities of 5. Channel 2 - Input Channel 1 - Input AA100PHD Professional Mixer Amplifier...
AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier Block Diagram 1601 Jack McKay Blvd. • Ennis, Texas 75119 U.S.A. Telephone: 800.876.3333 • Fax: 800.765.3435 – 17 – AtlasSound.com Specifications are subject to change without notice.
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier AA100PHD Specifications Type Mixer Amplifier RoHS Compliant Safety Listings ETL (UL 60065 Standard) Electrical Specifications Power Output Max. Average Power @ 80Hz-15kHz with 1% THD, 4Ω 100W RMS Transformer Outputs 100W RMS 70.7V 100W RMS 4Ω...
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AA100PHD Owner’s Manual 100W Mixer Amplifier AA100PHD Specifications Outputs Main Transformer Coupled, Balanced, 4Ω, 25V, and 70.7V. Class 2 Rated, Removable 4 Position PHX 5.08mm pitch, Accepts up to 12 Gauge Wire, 12A Rating Zone 2 Unbalanced 600Ω / 10kΩ, Max 1.0V Out, Removable 2 Position PHX 3.5mm Pitch, Accepts Up to...
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