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TC Electronic A/S 

Finalizer Express Service manual 

page 13 

Circuit Description 

The Finalizer Express consist of a front, a digital, an analog and a power supply section. Here is a brief description of the sections: 

Front section 

consist of two boards placed in the front profile. The main front board 

has two matrix circuits; one for LED's and one for keys. The 7 pots are scanned by 
IC8. The EEPROM contains the serial no. 

The LED front board is fitted with the LED's and key switches. 

Digital section

 is placed mainly in the middle and in the left side of the main board. 

The digital section contains the Reset, MPU, SRAM, DSP,  DARC, Sound RAM,  FLASH, 
Interfaces and PLL circuit. 

Reset controls the MPU and the DA. 

The Software for MPU is loaded into the FLASH. The MPU controls DSP, SRAM, Jeida, 
Front, MIDI, External Control In and analog gain settings. 

The major task for the DSP is to "calculate" sound. It also generates the 80MHz clock for 
the DARC chip. 

The DARC chip controls the sound data to/from; DSP, Sound RAM, digital in/outputs and 
AD/DA converters. 

Interface for MIDI and External Control In consist almost of discrete components. 

The interface for the front has an integrator, which converts a 3.3kHz square wave to a 
negative DC voltage for the display contrast. By changing the duty cycle of the square 
wave the DC voltage and thereby contrast will also 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 x sample rate and to 1 x sample rate by the DARC. 
The PLL has its own power regulation. 

 

 

Analog section

 is placed mainly on the right side of the main board. 

The analog input is balanced, thus pin 3 should be connected to pin 1 when used with 
unbalanced equipment. 

Analog Input levels and Analog Output levels are controlled by digital potentiometers. These 
potentiometers are located in a single chip, IC33. 

The A/D converter is a 24bit converter . The A/D and D/A converters have also a separate 
power regulation. 

The D/A converter is also 24bit. A DC voltage is applied to the left & right signal output at 
the converter. 

After the D/A comes a 2nd order filter, then the output level and then a 1st order filter. 

An electronic balanced circuit perform the output stage. Again, XLR pin 3 should be 
connected to pin 1 when used with unbalanced equipment. 

Power supply section

 consist of a separate Power Supply Module and some regulation 

circuits on the main board. 

One of the regulation circuits has an electronic switch for the +/-15V. But the electronic 
switch for the +5V is mounted inside the Power Supply Module. The switches are controlled 
by the Stand By circuit. The Stand By circuit is supplied from a separate power wire from the 
Power Supply Module. 

This service manual does not contain schematics for the Power Supply Module, because any 
attempt to repair the module must be completed with some safety tests such as high voltage 
and EMC test. Hence it is strongly recommended that the entire Power Supply Module is 
replaced in case of malfunction. 

 

  

Содержание Finalizer Epress

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

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

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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...

Страница 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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