Thanks! I'll check it out.
Haha! That would be about a quarter of a million dollars worth of 1250s at current rate.After ya' wire up about a hundred of 'em, ya' probably don't even have to look at the print any more.
As to soldering irons, I've been using the same Weller TC-201 for nearly 20 years. With heavy use, I have to replace the (temp control) switch and heater about every seven or eight years. I have been kicking around the idea of buying a Hakko FX888D.
No kiddin'. I bought mine about 12 years ago for $200, and almost passed on it then. Good thing I went ahead and bought it.
It was used when I bought it. Weller used to make seriously high quality products. And yeah, I really don't have any good reason to replace it. I keep a spare heater and switch on hand, along with a few tips. It will probably still be working long after I'm not.
I get it. I've done repetitive electrical jobs, chain outlet stores, restaurants, etc., that were basically all the same except for site work and the plans were around just for verification after awhile.
An SX1250 or Marantz 2385? What are your plans for the amp if you get one?
I have gone over these models pretty well, to the point of finding all the faults.
As good as they were, at the time they were designed, there can be a number of, lets say, modern day refinements, in materials and design
The number one thing I've noticed with Pioneer is hot running power supplies, some worse than others, and sometimes running semiconductors right on the edge of their SAO, also in the regulated power supplies. Often giving a bad name to good transistors. Pioneer, and other brands, also used some semis that were state of the art or close to it at the time, but it turned out that they weren't so great, i.e., 2SA725/726/750 and what not.
