brute amp clone?

hotwheelman
hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
edited July 2004 in Electronics
Here is a pic of what I believe to be a non tube version of the brute 70 amp. I recieved it in with some free items and it comes with issues. When powered with no signal and el cheapo speakers connected it just shoves them straight out and commences to smoke em good. What is usually the issue......bad caps?
"Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
"Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited July 2004
    and another view.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2004
    I'm sorry man, but the best thing for that amp would be to shoot it. ;)

    Oh wait did I say shoot? Let me add this :) for the morons.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited July 2004
    another.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited July 2004
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    I'm sorry man, but the best thing for that amp would be to shoot it. ;)

    Oh wait did I say shoot? Let me add this :) for the morons.


    Well I thought it might be an interesting project to mod it and see what I could do with it, I just need some guidance as to what I need to do to get it up and running.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited July 2004
    Anything and everything can be a project, go for it. It may lead to more knowledge for use on other things down the road.
    CTC BBQ Amplifier, Sonic Frontiers Line3 Pre-Amplifier and Wadia 581 SACD player. Speakers? Always changing but for now, Mission Argonauts I picked up for $50 bucks, mint.
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited July 2004
    I sure hope so...wish me luck, I think I'm gonna need it.:D
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,761
    edited July 2004
    Originally posted by dorokusai

    Oh wait did I say shoot? Let me add this :) for the morons.


    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited July 2004
    Originally posted by dorokusai
    Oh wait did I say shoot? Let me add this :) for the morons.

    LOL
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,995
    edited July 2004
    Poking the cones straight out means there's prodigous DC at the outputs. Assuming it has coupling caps, they could be bad; more likely IMO one or more output transistors is/are shorted out.

    If it makes you feel any better, it would probably sound pretty crappy even if it were working properly.

    I ALWAYS check for DC on the outputs of any SS gear I find before I risk a speaker on it. Only took me blowing out a pair of drivers on a Technics SA-202 I had found to learn to do that! Turned out one channel had something like 22 VDC on it (never blew the output fuses on the reciever, though). Speakers weren't meant to be 'always-on' electromagnets :-(
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