Some of you may recall a situation I had with my WOPL 400 build. It had developed a problem where it would trip the protector. Joe said he had a fix for it by swapping out a couple of resistors to different values, he sent me the revised replacement resistors and told me where they go.... I swapped them out and when I powered it up sparks flew and components burned up on the back planes and the control board as well as blew out 1/2 my brand new power transistors. When I reported back to Joe what had happened all he said was ooooppps he said he gave me the wrong info on where the new resistors were supposed to go. So I laid out a bunch more money out of my pocket to buy new components including new power transistors again and started to repair it. I got the backplanes repaired to the point where I put the first row of new power transistors in powered it up all seemed ok at that stage and took all the bad resistors and components that I could see that were burned out on the control board. But I started getting real frustrated with all the money and time I had put into the amp to see it all go up in smoke and all I got from Joe was ooopps, no further support of offer to help make it right. So the amp has sat now for near 3 years covered up with a towel as it disgusted me to even look at it. Well winter is here and I have been thinking about getting back on it, I pulled the towel off it to take a look but again my stomach just turned inside out.
Here is how it is sitting today....
Here is how it is sitting today....