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really high quality engineering 
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If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.
Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..." -
A possible solution (suggested on the Canopus forums, confirmed by Canopus Support) is to go via a 4 wire connector: use a 6-pin to 4-pin cable + 4 pin to 6 pin converter.
This way you loose the power cables, making it possible to use the rear DV connector in combination with a power supply.
(But I think they will get quite a lot of 'blown' ADVC110 )
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Weird...
I got notification from my store that Canopos hasn't found any issue with my ADVC110.
Tech support then hinted at a possible power issue with my PC. 
However, the device misbehaved both when connected to my firewire host, as when daisychained to my external firewire harddisk (in this case, I suspect, the power comes from the harddrive power).
Just to be on the safe side, I have ordered the external powersupply as well.
The ADVC110 is said to arrive back to me today, so I'm hoping that with the external supply everything will be fine.
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I got the device back, and also got the power supply.
Now, it works perfectly: it switches input when it should, it doesn't hang like before, ...
(it is connected with a 9-pin to 4-pin cable, using the front DV port)
So, if - as Canopus say - there is nothing wrong with the device, how come it didn't work when powered through firewire?
I tried it on my firewire host (Indigita idt804pci) and daisychained to my firewire harddisk (Lacie D2 Extreme). In both situations, it didn't work...
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