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Have downloaded the schematics from this forum to help repair the amplifier of a friend.
Turned out that Sony decided to route the earth through the chassis, even the earth between the various supplies.
When one takes the main board out of the chassis and switches the amp on, there are up to 20 volts difference between the eart (and hence reference) of the pre-amps and the main amps.
Luckily the amp goes into protection but from a design point of view it is not nice to rely on screws and aluminum face plates to conduct up to 0.2 amps of current from one supply to another.
What I did is solder wires to every eart point and connected them on the main board to make it stand alone and not rely on conducting current through the chassis anymore.
Bad design, simple repair but took some digging in the schematics to find out what exactly was going on!
I have and found most of the voltages as indicated on the circuit diagram, till op amp M 5218P; are near those specifed. The output on the centre of the two power transistors of both the channels are also alright.
While looking at the voltages on test points as mentioned on the page 7 for setting up quiscent current, these cannot be set.
Bit of history, the amplifier was lying unused for long time. Nothing in it has burnt. It was never opened earlier than this time, couple of days back.
While I was probing for voltages with DMM, with probe on collector of TR413 one of the fuses blew up. Later same thing happened on the other channel as well.
With the above as background can a Good Samaritan figure out feasibility of repair.
i am unable to upload service manual as file size is 7.3 mb
Hiya, am seeking a Penta amplifier circuit diagram. I have found a few on the web but this request relates to the input board. Early Penta Mark1s used an input board numbered 8002831 and used 6 transistors. my board is numbered 8002831E and looks similar - but in addition to TR1 to TR6 I have TR8 Tr9 TR10 TR16 TR16 on the circuit board. As its this board that is not working i'm quite keen to get hold of the right circuit diagram. The case says Penta 6602. Any help greatly appreciated. Happy New Year
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A jelenség: ha a pótméterrel növelni akarom a hangerőt, akkor a 1/3-d fölé érve elnémul, és csak ha kikapcsolom, a potit kicsit lejjebb állítom, és visszakapcsolás után jön vissza a hang.
Az 5. képen látható R803-as ellenállást én tettem bele, mert az elődje, enyhén szólva megpirult. Ez is melegszik nagyon.
Jó lenne valami rajz, hogy tudjak molyolni benne.
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