On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Ron Hardin
wrote:

Watch out! Some phantom power mics blow up Behringer mixers.

In particular the Rode NTG-2. If you turn on phantom power the phantom
power permanently is destroyed in the mixer.

Where on earth did you pick up that little urban legend? You can dead
short a behringer preamp without damage - as you probably can any pre.
They are current-limited by a pair of 6.2k resistors, so it would take
some extraordinary feat of engineering incompetence to make them
susceptible.

d

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Don Pearce wrote:

On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:05:47 -0500, Ron Hardin
wrote:

Watch out! Some phantom power mics blow up Behringer mixers.

In particular the Rode NTG-2. If you turn on phantom power the phantom
power permanently is destroyed in the mixer.

Where on earth did you pick up that little urban legend? You can dead
short a behringer preamp without damage - as you probably can any pre.
They are current-limited by a pair of 6.2k resistors, so it would take
some extraordinary feat of engineering incompetence to make them
susceptible.

I just report. It destroyed two mixers, MX802A's. The mic didn't
work on phantom power, and the phantom power light no longer came on
when you flipped it on afterwards.

``destroyed'' means only that phantom power no longer works.
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On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

"Ron Hardin" wrote ...
I just report. It destroyed two mixers, MX802A's. The mic
didn't work on phantom power, and the phantom power
light no longer came on when you flipped it on afterwards.

That story is just not credible without a first-hand reference.