Is he hooking up External Speakers,or splicing MORE speakers to his=20 existing ones ??? Peggs At 05:24 AM 6/28/04, Gemini Computer & TV wrote: >I have a customer (who is an electronics engineer) with a Sony KV32XBR96S >who brought in his set (as he lives outside my in-home service area) back= in >January for a dead set condition. I had found the front audio amp IC >(IC1401) blown with a hole in it. There were also other damaged components >as well that were replaced with Sony originals. Here is a list of those >parts: >IC1401 >IC1501 >D1409 >D1410 >D1411 >C661 >C662 >C668 >VDR602 >R623 > >Everything was fine until the beginning of June when the customer once= again >brought it in for a dead set condition again. This time I found and= replaced >the following components with Sony originals: >IC1401 >D1409 >D1410 >D1411 > >I completed the repair on Friday, 06/18/2004 and let the set run= continously >around the clock until he picked it up on Thursday, 06/24/2004. I had >informed the customer that IC1401 once again had a hole blown in it and had >him check the external speaker wire connections to make sure that none had >excessive length of exposed bare copper at either end when he returned= home. >The set ran great Thursday, Friday, and part of Saturday but then the >customer states he lost audio for about 15 minutes, then lost the picture, >smelled burning, and the set returned to it's same old dead set condition.= I >just got off the phone with him and explained that it sounds like that >IC1401 may have blown again but I am at a loss to explain the reason for a >repeated failure and that I would pose this question to my fellow >technicians on the various email forums to which I am a member. So now let >me request your collective ideas! > >Bob Waterman, CET=AE #RI-28 >Master Technician License #9109 >Service Manager / Parts Manager >Gemini Computer, TV, & Security Alarms >(508)695-7302 >(508)695-7769 FAX >geminitv@xxxxxxxxxxx >geminitv@xxxxxxx >www.geminicomputertvsecurityalarms.com > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- >Lost Password: >http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". >Email Archives: >//www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lost Password: http://www.tech-assist.org and select "Login Problems?". Email Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/techassist/