Smart(?) Bars?

[Don]

Hi Patrick,

DC does recommend cleaning the contact area with a plastic pot scrubber.
What you have is a build up of mineral deposit on the bar. Remove it and
all will be well. It is possible if you used distilled water to fill that
it may not conduct well. Try adding a pinch of common table salt to the
water on the first fill only.

At 08:36 AM 3/30/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Good Morning, All! I have a piano I am servicing that has a Dampp-Chaser
>system with a "smart bar" on the humidifier.  The red pad light was on when
>I came to tune the piano, so I changed the pads as per usual and the light
>went out.  However, when I checked again after tuning the piano the light
>had come back on.  I reached down into the humidifier and wet the pads in
>the tank, thinking that the water hadn't wicked up enough to register on the
>smart bar.  The light then went out.  When I got home yesterday afternoon
>there was a call from the customer saying that the light was back on, and it
>is still on this morning.  This is the first system with this smart bar that
>I have installed, so I am at a loss to diagnose the problem.  I'll be going
>back there this amfternoon to check, but wondered if anyone with experience
>with this new system has some advice to steer me in the right direction. 
>Thanks, Patrick Poulson, RPT
>
>
Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.
Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts
drose@dlcwest.com
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