I'll be honest, I probably won't be here long. First off I just don't know anything about things that run on electricity. I have to have my kids program my remotes. Although, I must admit I am pretty good at getting electrocuted and living to tell the tail. LOL I'm a metal scraper, I have a small truck and I scrap the public. Most things I recycle are dead beyond repair upon my arrival but every now and then you get lucky. For example, like a few weeks ago I'm driving through a neighborhood and I see a refrigerator door leaned up against a house. I figured the rest of it must be in the garage and the home owner might want to get rid of it so I knock on the door. The guy who opened the door was the owner of the house. He had to foreclose on the guy who had been living there and was buying the house. This guy just moved off and left everything. The owner had just gotten there and was waiting on the trash haulers to come and haul everything away. He told me I could have anything I wanted. I got 5 truck loads of stuff out of there and almost had the first truck load loaded up by the time the trash haulers got there. The first thing I took was the big screen 50" Sony TV. It didn't work, the color was all messed up but $125.00 later I now have the best TV I have ever owned. How lucky can you be, I am so grateful to have it. Plus he gave me the guys stereo system too. It is a Pioneer system with a SA-1290 stereo amplifier, Pioneer TX-1090Z am/fm digital tuner, Pioneer PD-4100 compact disk player, Pioneer CT-w300 stereo double cassette deck and a Sony CDP-C301M compact disc player. I have hooked them all up and they appear to come on and work but when I hook up a speaker to the amplifier I can't get any sound to come out. Plus, I would like to hook this system up to my TV for that surround sound theater experience but I have no Idea how to do that. On the front of the Pioneer SA-1290 stereo amplifier there is a light that says HIGH POWER OUTPUT that keeps flashing. Is there anyone out there that knows what that means and can help me figure out what I'm doing wrong so I can hook this up to my TV? Thank you for your help.
Pioneer SA-1290 stereo amplifier
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Firstly, Welcome to AK! Secondly, sounds like you have some great gear! Lastly, what speakers outputs do you have the speakers connected to? are they selected as on on the receiver? and how about inputs? all the info we can have helps :yes:
Thank you, sorry for the delay, I had to go pick my daughter up from work, she called just as I finished posting. And as far as the speakers go, the SA-1290 can accept 4 speakers, all bare ended wire hook ups. Is that what you meant?
thank you, that is a great idea and one that I will look into now that I'm signed up, however before I posted I did type in the amp into the search box but 15 pages later I found nothing that I could use. But I will keep trying until I figure it out.
Thank you, yes,that is a good point, sometimes we over look the obvious. In the front there are two buttons, one for A and one for B. I made sure both were turned on and now I will go hook up a second speaker, one to A and one to B to see if that helps. I will let you know what happens.
Captain’s log, Star date 2013. This is day two of my quest for a quick fix to my Pioneer SA-1290 stereo amplifier problem. I'm unsure but I seem to have landed on some sort of alien eBay market place planet for used stereo components. The alien's hear are a friendly sort, and they seem to have an intelligence beyond any aliens I have met before on my internet journeys and yet none of them know anything. When asked a direct question they hum and vibrate their lips up and down with their finger and then disappear into the crowd. In order to try and fit in and not bring suspicion to myself I have resorted to walking around with my head down blurting out bits and pieces of the alphabet followed by a few random numbers. So far no one has noticed that I am a stranger! It could take days to seek out the information I'm looking for. Upon arrival yesterday one of the aliens suggested I start reading their old transcripts in an effort to find the information I seek. Little did I know that this yellow brick road would wind down through a depraved technology purgatory that descends into the information depths of Hell!!! My sanity has been tested, yet I struggle to cling to reality with shields holding at 83%, if not for my fawn memories of the playboy channel I may have very well been assimilated by now! Still I read on, the federation depends on the success of this mission. Alright, I'm going back in, (ok – note to self), comb your hair and adjust your crotch bulge… for the love of…I’M OUT OF CLEAN SOCKS. Computer..I need a fluffy pair of knee high tube socks rolled up, RIGHT NOW! God help us all! Phaser set to stun!
Captain’s log, Star date 2013. Day three of my quest for amplified knowledge. It is early morning and most of the aliens are still sleeping as I search their data base. I have located two aliens of interest that I will attempt to contact today but because I am having trouble comprehending the local dialect, I will be communicating via sign language, also known as Helen Keller-isum! I just hope that the alien’s hands are clean and they don’t try to bite me if I spell something wrong! Above me my ship circles the planet hidden by a Federation cloaking device and all communications with me have been shut off. I feel totally alone and I’m hungry but the needs of the many out weigh the few so I push on.
mrr1
Just Analog
Yes....and...look at the pic. See the jumpers lower left? Make sure they are in place. Amp won't work without. If missing just use any RCA cable you have. Hook up speakers to A left and right.
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Hi Mprince, Thanks for the response. There is no button like that on it but there is a tape indicater button on the front just like there is one for the tuner and so on. Which ever button you push, a light above it comes on indicating it is working.
Oh I love pictures, and you have nailed it! This is the amplifier I have. The two u shaped jumpers on the bottom left are both there and in place. All the input jacks from top to bottom on the left are red and the ones on the right are white. The top first six inputs are grouped together and called input. With the top two indicating you plug the phono in there, but I do not have a phono. The next two indicate a place for the Video/aux. I assume this is the one I want to hook up to my TV? The last two of the group of six indicates its there for the CD player. The next group of 4 input jacks below the first six are grouped with the word Tape above it. I assume these are for the tape player with the first two jacks having the word (REC) next to it and the next two input jacks having the word (PLAY) by it. Oh, and at the top just slightly off to the side is a little button that has the letters GND under it but nothing is attached to it.
ConradH
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Begin at the end you must to journey backwards for forward progress. Unplug the speaker wires from the receiver. Find a 1.5 volt battery, AA, C or D cell. Briefly touch the speaker wires across the battery, either way. You should hear a click and the woofer (if you can see it) should move in or out. This will at least prove that the speakers are working in some fashion. If fried the speakers be sound will not emanate. If the speakers are good we have to investigate the receiver some more. It has no signal source on its own, but needs the tuner (or other source) plugged in. Lets keep it simple and use one thing. Can you get a signal on the tuner- meter or indicator lights suggesting a stereo signal? You'll need at least a piece of wire for an antenna on the back and suitable RCA leads to plug it into the tuner input.
Fantastic! Thank you Conrad for responding so quickly. Everything checks out. The speakers are fine and working. The tuner is a Pioneer TX-1090Z and is working. It comes on and lights up, plus when I try to find a station it finds the local stations around here indicated by their settings. I have an antenna hooked up to the FM antenna connection located on the back of the tuner. The amplifier comes on and lights up too. Plus the graphic Equalizer on the amp moves as if it is receiving a signal, despite the fact that the tabs are broken off of the sides of the tuner plug that holds it into place on the amplifier. It wiggles up and down a bit but when adjusted to how it should set in the amp plug in spot, everything appears to work fine. On the front of the amp there is a light that keeps flashing that says HIGH POWER OUTPUT.
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ConradH
Lunatic Member
I'm a bit concerned about that flashing light. It may concern the warp core. It's either a distress call or a warning beacon. As you know, failure to correctly identify the difference didn't work out so well for Ripley. You can put a Babel fish in your ear to directly translate it, but more likely you'll have to get a manual. It should have some description of what the light signifies and then we can decide what to do about it- rescue mission or RLH (run like hell).
LOL Finally, someone with a sense of humor! My 5 day mission is to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. This is why I have landed on your planet. We come in peace. It has long been my suspicion that the flashing light on the control panel was a warning of some kind. Perhaps the vessel was damaged by a lightning strike photon torpedo from the last encounter with the Borg? I have searched the galaxy for a manual but no one with one can be located. I did however locate an alien on your planet that has a SA-1290 but his last entry was star date 2005 and is feared to be dead. I have hailed him but there is no return response. I would RLH but my Emmy depends on my stead fast determination to complete the rescue mission. I should just stop by the star base repair station for analyses but it is run by the Farangy and they want to many lithium bars just to take a look at it. Surly among your people you know someone that can help? Perhaps a retired Witch doctor or Voodoo man?
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