02-01-2024, 11:32 PM
Hi everybody first post,
I just picked up a 49-1606 because I liked the cabinet and it was cheap. I figure its at least worth giving the college try to get it to work at least in some fashion.
I have some background in digital electronics and soldering so I am not totally cold, but I have never worked on anything analog like this and figure if i break it it was already broken.
I plugged (before read about it and saw not to) it in and it gave me a increasing volume hum with no reaction to the volume knob. (Previous owner did the same thing before me so hopefully it was no *additional* harm.)
Before I do anything else I am going to replace the big 40mf filter caps in c103.
Is it worth replacing all caps above a certain size? All caps total? Seems like there are 50 or 60 of them.
Anything else I should check/replace for safety of myself or other components? thinking selenium rectifiers?
Thanks
I just picked up a 49-1606 because I liked the cabinet and it was cheap. I figure its at least worth giving the college try to get it to work at least in some fashion.
I have some background in digital electronics and soldering so I am not totally cold, but I have never worked on anything analog like this and figure if i break it it was already broken.
I plugged (before read about it and saw not to) it in and it gave me a increasing volume hum with no reaction to the volume knob. (Previous owner did the same thing before me so hopefully it was no *additional* harm.)
Before I do anything else I am going to replace the big 40mf filter caps in c103.
Is it worth replacing all caps above a certain size? All caps total? Seems like there are 50 or 60 of them.
Anything else I should check/replace for safety of myself or other components? thinking selenium rectifiers?
Thanks
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