TABLE OF CONTENT Introduction General technical description Safety considerations Installation Warranty and service Operation Front panel controls Rear panel controls and connections What if..nothing happens ? ... there's no sound ? ... it hums ? Specifications...
1. Introduction Trigon Dear owner, Monolog Thank you for purchasing a high-performance mono power amplifier Trigon Premium Line Premium Line from the . Our defines the best seat Monolog in the house of authentic music reproduction, stands for the way music is played, with authority.
LED-based and very quick. This display can also be changed and/or disabled by a dedicated switch on the rear panel. 2.1 Safety considerations Trigon Elektronik GmbH will not be liable for any damage caused by improper handling or by lack of observing the following safety instructions and warnings.
AC mains voltages between 210 and 245 Volts, normal value is 230 Volt. For specific markets the amplifier can be adapted in the factory for 115V or 100V Ac mains respectively. In this case, please contact your Trigon Elektronik G.m.b.H. dealer, distributor or directly.
Trigon Elektronik GmbH offers a 3 year warranty in the unlikely event, that, against all odds, one of our products does not perform flawlessly. This warranty is limited to the repair of any defective component and the involved labour cost.
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Monolog damage the amplifier and/or your speakers! The being a high power device, it is strongly recommended to act with great care. Please make sure that there are no potential shorts circuits in the speaker cables. An integrated protection circuit checks the output of the amplifier when it is powered up.
3.1 Front panel controls Monolog- Display 32dB OFFSET 26dB 10V DC TEMP 20dB UNBAL TRIGGER Monolog Monolog A single control is found on the front panel: the STANDBY/POWER switch. This push button controls the microprocessor driven logic circuitry which in turn starts the soft power-up circuit limiting the rush-in current, the main power relays and the output stages.
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(speaker system and cable combined) – There may even be a short circuit! Since any value below 2 Ohms is outside the design parameters, the unit’s power supply will not turn on. Monolog Please turn off the amplifier and verify all connections.
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Please contact your authorized dealer, distributor or Trigon Elektronik GmbH directly. Since there may be a more serious problem, at hand, the unit must be verified by a qualified service technician.
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This indicates whether one of the available automatic power options has been enabled. The desired mode can be selected from the pushbutton labelled “AUTO“ (13) located on the rear panel. Monolog With TRIGGER mode selected, the amplifier will turn on as soon as an audio signal is present at the input terminals.
Monolog rear panel controls and connections DISPLAY GAIN BAL/UNBAL AUTO INPUT OUTPUT UNBAL INPUT MONO POWER AMPLIFIER MONOLOG SPEAKER MAIN POWER REMOTE 10V DC handmade by CAUTION in GERMANY CONSUMPT ION 5 - 1000VA [ 9 ] VU selector Allows to toggle between LED VU meter display modes. The selected mode is displayed by the VU Mode Indicator (4).
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BAL/UNBAL LED Display (7). [ 13 ] “AUTO“ Switch Activates the automatic power mode. With TRIGGER mode selected, the Monolog amplifier will turn on as soon as a sufficiently strong (loud) audio signal is detected at the input terminals. Monolog In 10V DC mode the amplifier will turn on when DC (approx.
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Connector for the negative ( ) side of the load (loudspeaker). Please remember that – Monolog is a bridged topology amplifier, which means that the negative ( terminal is not neutral but connected to a “hot” pole of an amplifier stage inside the Monolog .
Replace fuses only with the same type to avoid possible damage! [ 21 ] REMOTE 10V DC input connector Monolog power amplifier will turn on if a trigger voltage between +4V and +10V DC is applied to this connector with AUTO power mode 10V DC enabled. As...
Monolog amplifier to “crash”, similar to a computer “crashing”. This may cause the Monolog's logic circuits to deactivate the output relays or to simply stop responding. Switch off the power to the Monolog from the power switch located on the unit’s front panel for 30 to 60 seconds.
: -106 dB at 1 Watt into 4 Ohms Weight : 23.5Kg Dimensions : 300 x 160 x 450 mm (BxHxT) Specifications subject to change Designed and crafted by: TRIGON ELEKTRONIK GmbH Korbacher Straße 185 34132 Kassel Germany Tel. +49 (0) 561/474462 +49 (0) 561/474463 trigon@trigon-audio.de...
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