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Its all about the Music
So here we have a guy who bought a SX1250 off ebay, it turned up damaged, so a lot of work was needed to get it running again.
It seems the tech this was taken to was a "get it working and out the door" type......The first thing was "apparently" the voltage selector was not working. So I have taken a look at this issue, and it seems this guy decided, instead of finding out the problem and returning it to factory, he would just cut all the wires off the selector and hard-wire it to "230V" according to his note on the back, and decided that the soft start relay wasn't necessary.
Man, this sort of thing really annoys me. Why not just fix it!! There is no reason this could not have been restored to factory with the voltage selector functioning correctly.
I have had a quick assessment with the meter of the voltage selector, and off course it is functioning as I thought it would be.
Looks like there was an issue with the balance pot, so this is bypassed, not fixed.
Other "spot" repairs have been made to "get it going".
But none of the actual preventative maintenance has been carried out, not one cap replaced, no real restoration work has been done.
I'm not even going to start talking about the state of the wire wraps.....
Apparently the tuner was "aligned".....It is on frequency, but there is literally no stereo separation, you can barely hear the difference between FM Stereo and FM Mono...
The owner got sick of getting it "fixed" and then having something else go wrong a few weeks later....
So its come to me so I can get it back to factory, and carry out the work that should have been done in the first place, carefully restore, and turn it into a fully functioning SX1250.
I've got my work cut out for me here........I am looking forward to it!!
Couple of pictures of my initial findings.
First, I really want to get this voltage selector wired up and the soft start working again. I will also fit a 3 core power cable and 3 conductor power plug, everything has to be earthed in our country.
It seems the tech this was taken to was a "get it working and out the door" type......The first thing was "apparently" the voltage selector was not working. So I have taken a look at this issue, and it seems this guy decided, instead of finding out the problem and returning it to factory, he would just cut all the wires off the selector and hard-wire it to "230V" according to his note on the back, and decided that the soft start relay wasn't necessary.
Man, this sort of thing really annoys me. Why not just fix it!! There is no reason this could not have been restored to factory with the voltage selector functioning correctly.
I have had a quick assessment with the meter of the voltage selector, and off course it is functioning as I thought it would be.
Looks like there was an issue with the balance pot, so this is bypassed, not fixed.
Other "spot" repairs have been made to "get it going".
But none of the actual preventative maintenance has been carried out, not one cap replaced, no real restoration work has been done.
I'm not even going to start talking about the state of the wire wraps.....
Apparently the tuner was "aligned".....It is on frequency, but there is literally no stereo separation, you can barely hear the difference between FM Stereo and FM Mono...
The owner got sick of getting it "fixed" and then having something else go wrong a few weeks later....
So its come to me so I can get it back to factory, and carry out the work that should have been done in the first place, carefully restore, and turn it into a fully functioning SX1250.
I've got my work cut out for me here........I am looking forward to it!!
Couple of pictures of my initial findings.
First, I really want to get this voltage selector wired up and the soft start working again. I will also fit a 3 core power cable and 3 conductor power plug, everything has to be earthed in our country.