Installation; Placement And Mounting; Input Signal Sources; Turntables - Ecler HAK300 Bedienungsanleitung

3. INSTALLATION

3.1. Placement and mounting

The first thing to take into consideration when placing your HAK is your comfort and
an easy access to all the connections.
The HAK300 is basically conceived as a tabletop mixer and its usual placement will
be between two vinyls or CD players. The optional metallic side profiles kit allows you to firmly
fix your HAK to the surface over which it is placed or over its own profiles (Fig.1). These
profiles also allow to tilt the mixer's position for an easier operation.
Because of the high gain of the PHONO and MICROPHONE inputs, always try to place
the mixer as far away as possible from noise sources (dimmers, engines, etc.) and mains wires.
For the very same reason, and under any circumstance, you should never remove the unit's
metallic cover.
The power consumption of the HAK is very low, so they don't need any cooling, but
you should avoid extreme temperatures and the atmosphere should be as dry and dustfree as
possible.
The HAK300 operates under 110, 120, 220, 230 or 240V 50/60Hz, depending on
the country, (see characteristics in the back of the unit). Make sure that the mains-wire is far
away from the signal-cables in order to avoid any possible audio hum.
In order to protect the unit from an eventual electrical overload it carries a 250mA
fuse (2). Should it ever blow up, unplug the unit from mains and replace it with an identical
one. If the new fuse blows again contact immediately with our authorized technical service.
ATTENTION: NEVER SHORT-CIRCUIT THE SECURITY PATH OR USE A HIGHER VALUE FUSE.
CAUTION: Fuse substitutions have to be performed by a qualified technician.

3.2. Input signal sources

3.2.1. Turntables

Turntables need a phono cartridge and an intact needle. Consider using specialized
cartridges and needles for hard scratching application. Remember also to replace the needle
approximately every 500 hours of use. Turntables must be fitted with magnetic cartridges of
5.6 to 177mV nominal output level. The PHONO inputs (6-12) of the HAK300 have a very
good headroom so they can accept high output level cartridges. If you use low output, moving
coil cartridges, you will need to use an external preamplifier, placed as near as possible to the
turntable and connected between the cartridge and the mixer.
Please take care on the correct assignment of channels to the Phono inputs (6-12)
and that the turntables ground cable is connected to the HAKs GND (4).
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