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Kr-7400 Power Transformer Conundrum

ZenithNut

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Hello
I recently got a kenwood kr 7400 stereo reciever from a co worker recently. It had been in his shed for a while (2-3 years) and sold it to me cheap $15 bucks. I tool it home, looked through it and decided not to power it up since a lot of caps were visibly damaged, not to mention those two 2wattof resistors in the power supply that like to get toasty in this model and the 9400.
i did a partial re cap and put in replacement resistors at 10.5 watts. Tried to fire it up but nothing happened. I traced 120v ac on the four wire leads (red, white, blue, and yellow )are on the terminal post. The on/off switch only has around 4.0 v across it. There's nothing over the electrolytic can capacitors. I turned the reciever off and did a resistance check on both coil windings on the transformer. Winding 1 was 3.7 ohms between each lead, and a bitt around the same on the out put leads. There seems to be a complete path with voltage coming in, but absolutely nothing coming out?
HELP me please.
 
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It could be a faulty power switch?

Yes it could be a bad power switch, or a bad connection on a fuseholder, fuse, or mains voltage selector for example.

With the unit unplugged from everything, connect your multimeter (set to ohms), to the mains power plug pins, check the resistance. With the unit switched to the "on" position it should read the same as the transformer primary resistance. (remember to set the unit to "off" again).

Be careful, you are faultfinding in an area which, if the unit was 'powered on', would have potentially lethal voltages present.
 
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It was the broken power selector switch. Now it runs fine but the right channel is silent. I have a few caps in the main amp board i suspect are dead and causing that. Thank you!
 
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