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**eccerr0r** · 11-27-2021, 10:34 AM

Yow...so I suspect a lot of amps that end up on the repair bench were self inflicted wounds?

I'm surprised that a lot of pre-drivers go bad... or were they too self inflicted?

I guess I did get one amp that failed due to poor QC/assembly. One of the leads on the STK chip broke. I didn't notice it broke until after I debugged down to the STK chip, bought a new STK chip, and I removed the old one. I think there was enough of a stub that I could have wired a jumper and reinstalled the old one, ha...

11-27-2021, 10:34 AM	#6
eccerr0r Solder Sloth Join Date: Nov 2012 City & State: CO My Country: USA Line Voltage: 120VAC 60Hz I'm a: Hobbyist Tech Posts: 7,086	Re: Frying amplifier finals... audio, not rf... Yow...so I suspect a lot of amps that end up on the repair bench were self inflicted wounds? I'm surprised that a lot of pre-drivers go bad... or were they too self inflicted? I guess I did get one amp that failed due to poor QC/assembly. One of the leads on the STK chip broke. I didn't notice it broke until after I debugged down to the STK chip, bought a new STK chip, and I removed the old one. I think there was enough of a stub that I could have wired a jumper and reinstalled the old one, ha...