Specifications

I LEFT THE SYSTEM ON, BUT JUST RETURNED AND FOUND IT IN STANDBY.

WHAT IS HAPPENING?

✓ There was probably a power outage while you were away from the

system. During a power failure, the AVP saves all of its critical set-

tings to nonvolatile memory. When power is restored, it enters the

standby mode and waits for your return.

MY ON SCREEN DISPLAY JUST INDICATED THAT THE AVP WAS GETTING

TOO HOT. WHAT DO I DO NOW?

✓ The simplest thing to do is to increase the ventilation being pro-

vided to the AVP. This situation is most likely to arise in a closed

equipment closet that include several power amplifiers which are

pre-heating the air before it even reaches the AVP. Frequently, open-

ing the door to the closet or providing additional ventilation some

other way is all that is needed.

✓ If adding adequate ventilation is impractical, contact your dealer

about the optional, internally-mounted, temperature-controlled fan

kit Madrigal offers for such cases. See what you can do about tem-

porarily increasing ventilation until the fan is installed. (If the tem-

perature of the AVP continues to rise, it will shut itself down be-

fore any damage can occur.)

MY VIDEO IS SOMETIMES WASHED OUT, APPEARING IN BLACK AND

WHITE ONLY. WHAT GIVES?

✓ Cause: The AVP can do a full conversion from S-video to compos-

ite, making all of the S-video sources available to the composite

outputs of the AVP (both main and remote/record). This often sim-

plifies operation significantly. However, conversion in the other di-

rection would have added significantly to the cost of the AVP. In-

stead, you get a black and white only rendition of whatever you

are trying to watch if you try to monitor a composite source on the

S-video output.

✓ What to do: switch to the S-video input on your TV. Assuming it

is connected, you’ll get all of the picture—color as well as black

and white.