Re: Amp - loss of power?

On 1 Oct 2005 22:04:18 -0700, "Ben Gray" <o2xtal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Looks like I've upset the guy most able to help.

An interesting conclusion, to say the least.

>Hopefully at least I can deduce the meaning of "in mid air" from the
>previous exchange.

How contagious are "his" (not really, of course; ** is
an AI programmed by a mal-adjusted fourteen year old) psychoses?
Wouldn't chance it, personally.

>If anyone can outline the steps to diagnose an intermittent fault in an
>output transformer, would still be much appreciated.

This stuff's dead simple; really. The only remotely
interesting part is isolating the culprit, and this
is pretty convincingly done by substitutions.

Do you have a sustitute rectifier? Do you have a
substitute load? If so, you're copacetic. If not,
post back.

Also, can you measure line voltage?

This ain't no big thang. Good fortune,

Chris Hornbeck

"Let us change the world" -Marx

"Let us change life" -Rimbaud

"All power to the imagination" -France, 1968
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