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TC Electronic A/S 

Finalizer Express Service manual 

page 7 

Disassembly Procedure for Main Board 

 

 

1.

 

Turn Off Power and Disconnect Power Cord. 

2.

 

Loosen 5 screws, see fig. 1, and remove the top cover. 

3.

 

Disconnect front connector, J1, see fig. 2. 

4.

 

Remove screws at MT7, MT8, MT2 on the main board, see fig. 2. 

5.

 

Remove 9 screws at the XLR connectors on the back panel, see fig. 3. 

6.

 

Remove the screw at the SPDIF in/out connector, see fig. 3. 

7.

 

Remove the screws at the ADAT in/out connector, see fig. 3. 

8.

 

Remove the jack nut at the EXT. CONTROL IN connector, see fig. 3. 

9.

 

Push the main board into the front profile a little to free the connectors from 
the back panel, then lift out the board. 

10.

 

Desolder the wires from power supply - see fig. 7. 

 

Fig. 1: Screws at top lid  

5 screws

Top view

 

 

 

Fig. 2: Screws and front connector at main board 

MT7

MT8

J1

main board

Power

Supply

MT2

Top view

 

Fig. 3: Screws at back panel.  

1 screw

2 screws 

Jack nut

100-240VAC / 20W

LISTED

5D83

PROFESSIONAL

AUDIO EQUIPMENT

THRU

IN

OUT

MIDI / RS485

PIN2+/PIN3-

PIN2+/PIN3-

LEFT

LEFT

[mono]

DI

RIGHT

RIGHT

DO

DI

DO

SP/DIF

BALANCED OUTPUTS

BALANCED INPUTS

DIGITAL AUDIO

AES/EBU

OPTO

0

DI

DO

SERIAL NO.

IN

EXTERNAL

CONTROL

3 screws

3 screws

3 screws

Summary of Contents for Finalizer Epress

Page 1: ...Technical service manual Finalizer Epress...

Page 2: ...ftware Boot Menu 4 Built in Test Program 6 Disassembly Procedure for Main Board 7 Disassembly Procedure for Front Section 8 Exchange of Power Supply Module 10 Exchange of Battery Exchange procedure 11...

Page 3: ...ists and Component Layouts The schematics start with a main sheet where sub sheets are shown as blocks Even sub sheets might have sub sheets In the schematics some connections have label names to help...

Page 4: ...ow keys to check the application software Press the FINALIZE SOFTCLIP key to execute If corrupted load the application software again Or try to run the self test prom see section Built in Test program...

Page 5: ...____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________ TC Electronic A S Finalizer Expr...

Page 6: ...case of defective IC35 IC36 IC41 they should be replaced with type MC33079 3 AES I O test A digital signal is generated on the AES EBU output When connected directly to the AES EBU input the display s...

Page 7: ...IF in out connector see fig 3 7 Remove the screws at the ADAT in out connector see fig 3 8 Remove the jack nut at the EXT CONTROL IN connector see fig 3 9 Push the main board into the front profile a...

Page 8: ...de panels by unscrewing 4 screws at each side see fig 4 5 Remove the front section 6 Pull off the seven pot knobs by hand 7 Place the front profile horizontally with the buttons facing down 8 Pull out...

Page 9: ...____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________ TC Electronic A S Finalizer Expr...

Page 10: ...pply by removing the screw just below the AC inlet at the back panel see fig 6 8 Mount the new power supply with the screw at the back panel 9 Solder the power wires into the main board see fig 7 10 M...

Page 11: ...d solder the terminals one by one Avoid any short circuit of the terminals 5 The voltage measured directly across the terminals of the new battery should be higher than 3 0VDC 6 Do not discard the old...

Page 12: ...OG INPUTS balanced ANALOG IN GAIN ANALOG OUT GAIN ANALOG OUTPUTS balanced A D Digital Input Select INPUT PPM OUTPUT PPM Left Left Left Right Normalizer Spectral Balance Fader Bypass Right Right Analog...

Page 13: ...o change An attenuator allows the MPU to measure the contrast voltage The PLL circuit placed on a separate board makes a very stable frequency at 256 x sample rate this frequency is divided down to 64...

Page 14: ...LD3 Code explanation Comment Off off off Normal On on on Checksum error in boot software Reload boot software LD4 has two functions 1 Show power on 2 Define clean power for IC33 pin 6 Jumper settings...

Page 15: ...Analog Outputs Connectors XLR balanced pin 2 hot Impedance 100 ohm active transformer Max Output Level 22 dBu balanced Full Scale Output Range 10 dBu to 22 dBu D to A Conversion 24 bit 1 bit 128 time...

Page 16: ...3001 4 14 pages Part list for Main board ver PC13001 4 16 pages PCB lay out for Main board ver PC13001 4 2 pages Schematic for Main board ver PC13001 3 14 pages Part list for Main board ver PC13001 3...

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