“Arse”
Yes, Arse. Anyway. I popped down to Donna’s for a day and a half, the call of Bath proving sucessful once again. Anyway, I had a really good time, just chatting and so on….but today. Today we went into Bath and shopped. I simply got a skirt – she went insane on tops ;-)
Well, okay she bought 2….Anyway. We then went to 1015 Music Exchange (again <g>) where I saw a rather nice Yamaha A-520 Amp. Which, I thought, would do nicely as a replacement for my amp which has started to crackle which is the fault it displayed last time. However the only reason I could even consider affording this amp was the simple fact that it did not work.
However I’ve always had a fair amount of luck with things electronic and my magic plan of looking, prodding, guessing and fixing has worked a surprisingly high percentage of times.
Unfortunately today it was not to be. In quite a bad way. For I located the obvious fault – but the alarm bells did not ring when they should have. For the amp had clearly been inexpertly repaired before – and my presumption was that it had simply failed again and the owner, being fed up had decided to be rid of it. However….Rather unfortunately I was wrong. Oh so wrong….
For there was the broken pair of wires, with their connector severed from the circuit board….Br+/- leading to Br+/-….
In a moment of madness (I’d already checked, no, it didn’t work…) I grabbed my trusty soldering iron. Connected the wires. Checked…Br+ went to Br+, Br- to Br-. A matching pair when to Bl+ and Bl- from the same place – so I thought – okay it must be providing roughly the right volts/amps – so it should all be fine…
[Click] *Flash* *Fizzle* “Eeep” [Click].
Oh dear. One of the transistors is now minus a leg…and I’m not sure what else is fried. I have no idea why – perhaps attacking it at 2300 was a bad idea…but never mind. So it’s currently located under my bed….I will (probably) get a quote for fixing it at some point in the future- although I’m tempted to get the service manual and try myself….
But rather a shame….for though I love my trusty Eagle amplifier it seems rather sickly again…and it would be nice to have an amp with a front panel….
Anyway, I’m shattered….so….bed…
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Kate