PL700 Rebuild

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Think this is the last of the preparation work. Finished up the temp compensating transistor assembly. time to remove the old control board and wire up the new one unless members remind me of something I missed. Red=E Black= B Green = C
Leads intentionally left long till I get things all in place in the chassis. The transistors are held in place with a drop of glue along with the tension of the P-strap to ensure no lead to case or chassis shorts.

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Yes sir those are either aluminum or mild steel. Forgot I had a couple that were oem straps on Sansui F-2980 temp bias transistors mounted to the pre driver heatsinks so was able to use those with the new transistors
 
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Time for a wiring check - - -
Left cap + is up
White wire on + connector end of buss bar goes to speaker relay pin 6
Two white wires on buss bar with green mark go to relay board ground position 2 and 4

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Relay board position 1 left speaker white output wire from backplane
Relay board position 3 right speaker white with red stripe output wire from backplane
Relay position 2 and 4 are the new white/green stripe wires to buss bar shown above
Relay position 5 and 7 are the new brown wires from ac points on new rectifier
Relay position six has three wires, a thin white/red wire that heads to new control board, a new white ground wire to ground of input jack and the original white wire that connects to the left main cap + (upper) terminal.
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And the backplane. New center board mounts installed, thermal compensation transistors mounted (green/black/red wires)
Input wires from new input jacks (grey) left and right
The thin white wire from relay pin 6 on the far right
The new meter wiring assembly on the work surface below the frame.
Every wire that enters a phoenix connector will be/already has been tinned to prevent strands from getting into mischief.
If I have made an mistake please show me the error of my ways otherwise will continue with the new WOPL board install.
Also, I did order a new wiring kit along with the board and seriously thinking of taking the time to replace all those old crusty hook up wires from the backplane board with nice color co-ordinated new ones.

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Relay position six has three wires, a thin white/red wire that heads to new control board, a new white ground wire to ground of input jack and the original white wire that connects to the left main cap + (upper) terminal.
All grounds should terminate back to the main capacitor buss bar.

Position six on the relay board should only have one ground wire back to the buss bar.

Remove and discard the wire connected to the copper plate between RCA inputs and relay board. RCA grounds connect to the new control board (pin 2 on each side).

Pin 5 of each control board Phoenix connector should have dedicated wires back to the buss bar.
 
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I am starting to understand why folks do the full WOPL upgrade. That backplane is unreal, yuck. Anyways for now will carry on. Fixed the wiring as detailed above. Now ready to install new control board and darned if I can find anywhere on the schematics how those output sockets are numbered. So perhaps yet another helping hand with the picture I posted above?
 
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Also think I need to change out the original wires for WOPL wires so the hooking up of the board goes without any magic smoke production once I get the output sockets identified.
 

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I am starting to understand why folks do the full WOPL upgrade. That backplane is unreal, yuck. Anyways for now will carry on. Fixed the wiring as detailed above. Now ready to install new control board and darned if I can find anywhere on the schematics how those output sockets are numbered. So perhaps yet another helping hand with the picture I posted above?
The attached should be clear enough Lee...
 

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