AI-1

This is an original AI-1, correct?
What's a fair price for it assuming it works?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,546
    Yep, that's an original. You buying or selling?
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,546
    2 posts to go. ;)
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  • kevinko
    kevinko Posts: 165
    Actually only one.
  • Toolfan66
    Toolfan66 Posts: 17,238
    edited May 2017
    $100-$150 you might even see $200 but most of the guys on the forum have built their own by now...
  • kevinko
    kevinko Posts: 165
    edited May 2017
    Thanks.

    Any way to test it to make sure it works? I don't have pin/blade SDAs.
  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,546
    The only test you can do without the speakers is to check for continuity. Being an isolation transformer there should be none on either the pin or blade.
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  • kevinko
    kevinko Posts: 165
    Okay that makes sense. Thank you.
  • Schurkey
    Schurkey Posts: 2,101
    I'd expect there's resistance checks that could be made.

    From pin to blade on one connector, then on the other connector. I'm sure they'll be close but not exactly the same--depending on the resolution of your meter. I don't have the resistance values handy.

    Then assure there's NO continuity from pin to pin.
  • Moose68Bash
    Moose68Bash Posts: 3,843
    I don't know what I'm talking about, but if it is an isolation transformer, don't you check whether it will perform by running a signal through one side of the transformer while checking to see whether s similar signal is induced in the other side of the transformer?

    Having asked that question, given he wiring of the AI-1, I have no idea how to do what I just described. :)
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  • kevinko
    kevinko Posts: 165
    edited May 2017
    Me neither. The only way I could think of hooking anything up to it was by using female RCA to male RCA adapters and sending a signal through it that way.
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    I didn't want to buy any cables or blow anything up though.
  • vmaxer
    vmaxer Posts: 5,117
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    $100-$150 you might even see $200 but most of the guys on the forum have built their own by now...

    Didn't know they were worth that much. I have one still in the original box.
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  • Schurkey
    Schurkey Posts: 2,101
    vmaxer wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    $100-$150 you might even see $200 but most of the guys on the forum have built their own by now...

    Didn't know they were worth that much. I have one still in the original box.
    Have any actually sold for that much since DK posted about the various Dreadnaughts?

    Maybe they have...but I'd be surprised.
  • pitdogg2
    pitdogg2 Posts: 25,441
    Schurkey wrote: »
    vmaxer wrote: »
    Toolfan66 wrote: »
    $100-$150 you might even see $200 but most of the guys on the forum have built their own by now...

    Didn't know they were worth that much. I have one still in the original box.
    Have any actually sold for that much since DK posted about the various Dreadnaughts?

    Maybe they have...but I'd be surprised.

    Those in the know know about the dreadnaughts. Those who don't buy them off eBay where I've seen pin/blades sell for $100.00 and blade/blades go for $60-80. So its not out of the relm of possibilities.