well as my 'journey' continues (unfortunately currently a journey without 'purpose', geddit)
i actually powered up today - no smoke

i am even getting some very tinny sounding audio, which disappears when i disable the eq
(it's obviously not a hard-bypass, I am still trying to figure out what the 'eq in' switch does, not easy without schematics etc...)
however, all the frequency bands seem to be working i can boost and cut to my hearts content, can't really make any judgement about the sound as something is clearly going wrong somewhere.
I swapped the 'BA284'style ampboards for two different ones from the other kit - this didn't change anything.
I am currently looking at the input stage (is there even one? can't locate the BA283 that would be found on the original)
or output stage.
RV4 seems to be some sort of input level, RV5 seems to be the 'symmectrical clipping' adjuster same as in my EZ1290.
I can't believe noone is posting apart from me and denyle, I think quite a few kits were sold. come on guys, pipe up


(the trafo is a VTB 1847 which I am using to test the eq while waiting for the EA1166)