Hello there people or person. guess what some bros threw out today? a good ol' RS-1080. they say it worked till they dropped it, and to an extent it still does. of course, that extent is that it turns on, and immediately plops its full load into any speaker hooked up to it (i shudder to think what would happen to those giant caps if i didnt have speakers plugged in while initial testing...), sends it frying like an egg on a pan, and outputs this oh so beautiful humm.
now. i already have the manual for it, which thankfully comes with a full schematic for this beast of a stereo, but ive never encountered this specific problem and actually bothered trying to figure out what was wrong (never happened on a stereo worth the effort of fixing.) and as such am not entirely sure where to start. id like to avoid replacing every single part if possible and just narrow it down to the necessities to make it function again. so i would like to know if anyone has experience with this particular issue and might be able to tell me which section to start looking at first. from the lack of signal and the hum, im guessing theres a short somewhere, and from the oh so enjoyable practice of wrapping a wire around a rod melting some metal and calling it a day, i can pretty much rule out anything simple like that. visual inspection, there dosent seem to be any blatantly burned/blown components, gonna strip it down, separate the boards and start running everything through the multi on the weekend, but you know. its nice to start somewhere other than at random point A and moving till you get to random end B
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now. i already have the manual for it, which thankfully comes with a full schematic for this beast of a stereo, but ive never encountered this specific problem and actually bothered trying to figure out what was wrong (never happened on a stereo worth the effort of fixing.) and as such am not entirely sure where to start. id like to avoid replacing every single part if possible and just narrow it down to the necessities to make it function again. so i would like to know if anyone has experience with this particular issue and might be able to tell me which section to start looking at first. from the lack of signal and the hum, im guessing theres a short somewhere, and from the oh so enjoyable practice of wrapping a wire around a rod melting some metal and calling it a day, i can pretty much rule out anything simple like that. visual inspection, there dosent seem to be any blatantly burned/blown components, gonna strip it down, separate the boards and start running everything through the multi on the weekend, but you know. its nice to start somewhere other than at random point A and moving till you get to random end B
if any further information is required, it shall be given upon request.