P-straps for bias Transistor and w wrong transistor, I removed it and for that price, it's well worth it to make a lot spares. "20 TO-92 HI GRAIN SILICON TRANSISTORS W/HEAT SINKS CLIPS 2N3402" who knows how many he has.
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BrickbyBrick
Glad you have it up and running!;) Did you try the meter Hack?
What ohm are your speakers?
Only thing to do now is check the heat of the PL
If its a Lower Ohm speaker or you run it hard ,,, might want to add a Fans
I also been using the WIMA for .47uf or less
Here another source for Silver Mica Capacitor from Parts Express, I Been buying the Miflex KPCU 0.10uF 600VDC Copper foil Poly/Paper in Oil for my Speaker crossover Bypass. I been buying them when on sale (they just double in prices now I glad I...
Thanks
I will have to buy some, Their on sale and cheap so why not for the old PL 400II and 700II boards, I bought some ceramic caps class 1 (recommended by another forum ) but they were tiny and when I touch them I heard noise lol
George
What is your pros and cons for the ceramic caps versus Silver Mica Capacitor
I found a some that are cheap. sounds like they worked for you?
I think you said you replaced all the ceramic caps w Silver Mica Capacitor?
Thanks
Steve
BrickbyBrick
I would stop now and Wait for the expert Joe.
Joe do you think he should flip the RT back plain board and inspect the back of the board?
it appears it the RT Board and RT Q3 had a bent pin and shorted to ground
the bad news is he was sparks in the RT board, Lower left corner.
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the 3 Ohm is Bad and put that in a separate pile.
did you mark the bad one ? does it have a black mark on it? is the meter set to the sound setting? going to Bed,,,,,,,,,
so The RT board blow the fuse? which one? (+ or -) and what output transistor shorted out to ground? explain inside view, could you mark it w a pic (were on the Rt back board)
Did any other fuse blow? 8a?