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Old 05-03-2008, 1:42 PM   #1
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Ghosts in the wire

I'm not sure if this is the right place (but then I don't where would be) but can anyone explain this.

I recently had a power cut, everything in the house went off as you'd expect except my dear old Pace Twin which still showed an active display. I'd earlier scheduled some recordings and to my amazement at the appropriate time the record light went on and when I looked the next day after power was restored it had actually recorded. In fact there was a perfect recording for 82minutes before it moved into a cycle of failure and recovery. All this while there was absolutely no power to the house!

I don't think the box has any internal power source because if I unplug it from the wall socket it just goes dead.

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Re: Ghosts in the wire

Any piece of mains operated equipment cannot operate without power.
Your Pace twin must be on a different mains wiring circuit if it operated while the rest of the house was off...there's nothing ghostly about it.
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Re: Ghosts in the wire

Hi JayCee,

It was the entire neighbourhood that was blacked out not just me.
It all just seems so weird.
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Re: Ghosts in the wire

Maybe it's got a battery tucked away somewhere inside? I'll have to find out now, that could be the rest of my day booked

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