TijuanaKez
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- Jul 19, 2011
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Hey there peoples.
So I got jack of the meter bulbs always blowing on my (old version) FET RACK and decided to fit some yellow LEDs and a 5W resistor to the 30VAC out of the transformer.
As I was testing adding more leds to even out the light, wire slipped and found itself falling precisely onto the only tiny piece of exposed terminal on the mains plug that wasn't completely covered by heat shrink.
Sparks flew, circuit breaker flipped, fuse in the mains plug on the unit blew.
As one might expect, now it's not happy. Meter reacts to turning the knobs with nothing plugged in and only faint signs of audio at the output.
All voltages seem within range as per the schematic (with voltages added)
What's my next best bet?
Shotgun replace all the transistors except the matched pair and hope for the best?
Or is there something else I should try first?
So I got jack of the meter bulbs always blowing on my (old version) FET RACK and decided to fit some yellow LEDs and a 5W resistor to the 30VAC out of the transformer.
As I was testing adding more leds to even out the light, wire slipped and found itself falling precisely onto the only tiny piece of exposed terminal on the mains plug that wasn't completely covered by heat shrink.
Sparks flew, circuit breaker flipped, fuse in the mains plug on the unit blew.
As one might expect, now it's not happy. Meter reacts to turning the knobs with nothing plugged in and only faint signs of audio at the output.
All voltages seem within range as per the schematic (with voltages added)
What's my next best bet?
Shotgun replace all the transistors except the matched pair and hope for the best?
Or is there something else I should try first?
