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<DIV>First of all eliminate the Airport Express. Go with the eighth inch
stereo (tip, ring and sleeve) from the speaker output of your iPad and plug it
directly into the iQ. It sounds like you’ve calibrated all the individual
solenoids so we know that works. You can hear the output of the iPad doing
it’s data stream thing (sounds like a fax machine with music at times) so you
have output from the source. Set the balance between the speaker and the
piano (this is a function of calibration in the iQ and eliminates a touchy
volume control) and be sure you have selected a song with music and piano ....
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<DIV>After you get the piano working with out Airport Express, then add the
wireless AE and see if you have functions. The output of the AE is weak
and so any people, walls, chairs, Doppler radar or Buicks in the way will reduce
it’s effectiveness. I’ve serviced one in a lobby to a hospital and I
noticed when the lobby was a busy place with lots of people milling about, the
wireless function was flakey. At first I suspended the small white box
(receiver) so it hung below the rim of the piano. This helped some.
Then I had the laptop moved from behind the lobby desk to the top of it so there
was “line-o-sight” betwixt it and the piano. This improved things
immensely until, like I mentioned earlier, the lobby filled up with sick people
farting and puking all over the place. Hey, it’s a living. I got
paid.</DIV>
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<DIV>... and while I’m at it, not that it pertains to your tarpickular
sitchyation,</DIV>
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<DIV>One other application was maybe 100 yards from a Doppler Radar
antenna. I had to ground the plate of the piano and locate the iQ inside
the ground plane it created plus hold my hand over the iQ box to get the piano
to respond. The entire house was overwhelmingly drenched with RF.
BTW, this ground plane process helped in another application where a local radio
station was getting in the iQ and coming out the speakers when at idle. I
ran some grounding braid from the power supply to the plate support post (grand
piano). I think I also had to install a ferrite bead on the data
cable. I dunno anymore ........ I’ve been paid and it was a
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