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Thread ID: 124807 2012-05-20 08:55:00 Tragedy Metla (12) PC World Chat
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1276478 2012-05-20 08:55:00 You never see it coming, You don't plan for it, and when it happens things are never the same again.

Plans, lives, goals, all in turmoil, That which was the norm becomes distant, abnormal, unable to be grasped.

Its like the color has been drained out of the world, replaced with gray, and where ever you try and focus, you see chaos, disorder, trouble.

And yet, Life goes on, and there is at least hope.

Hope that my amp can be repaired.

Anyone think it will be a simple fix?

She cut out when in use. Now if you power it up it cycles through its boot then turns off.

I pulled the lid off, brushed out a thick layer of dust, sprayed here in electro-clean, let her dry, powered her up, smoke came out of the area I have highlighted. Down there are the speaker wire terminals.

Thoughts?

3812
Metla (12)
1276479 2012-05-20 09:01:00 Ohhh, well put.
I sympathise.
KarameaDave (15222)
1276480 2012-05-20 09:03:00 Any scorch marks? What about that cap that is closest in the picture, is the top bowed out? pine-o-cleen (2955)
1276481 2012-05-20 09:09:00 It's not a simple short of the speaker wires is it? I notice that the heatsinks (representing the power amplifiers) are not in that area BBCmicro (15761)
1276482 2012-05-20 09:13:00 I didn't see any visual damage, that cap looks fine, The smoke that came out was directly above that black box attached to the rear panel, I was following my nose at the time as I could definitely smell it.

I killed the power when I saw the smoke so can't pinpoint exactly where it came from.
Metla (12)
1276483 2012-05-20 09:14:00 It's not a simple short of the speaker wires is it? I notice that the heatsinks (representing the power amplifiers) are not in that area

No speaker wires inserted when I tested it.
Metla (12)
1276484 2012-05-20 09:40:00 Perhaps something is shorted in the speaker terminals. It may have a protection circuit that detects a short and turns it off. pine-o-cleen (2955)
1276485 2012-05-20 09:57:00 It definitely has that ability, ive triggered it a few times.

Also, i may have got water into her, i had my bowl of ice on the amp....
Metla (12)
1276486 2012-05-20 11:16:00 Possibly the CNG conversion was a bit faulty? R2x1 (4628)
1276487 2012-05-20 11:28:00 Oh man I feel for you.:horrified Ya know I used to have a Ducati just like that (sob).... Winston001 (3612)
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