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BadMouth:

--- Quote from: shponglefan on May 10, 2020, 09:15:00 pm ---
That looks like nice work! Is that a heatsink in the cutout?

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Yep. Heatsink doesn't get very warm, but I'm not using the subwoofer side so twice the heatsink for the main amp chip.

RandyT:

--- Quote from: pbj on May 11, 2020, 06:22:24 pm ---Option 3 is strip out the controls from these speakers and wire them up to a new amp (about $45). And option 4 is toss the set and start anew.

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Probably not what you want to do, but unless you have schematics, to trace and properly test everything, throwing expensive parts at it might make you cry in the long run.

My daughters had a nice little bookshelf system a couple of decades ago and the sound went out. It was never cranked or anything else which would tax the amplifier. Nonetheless, I took a shot in the dark and ordered the expensive amplifier chip and replaced it (no small task in itself.) It lasted about two months before dying again. The moral of the story is that when a part dies, there's usually a reason which is unrelated to the dead part. Finding that reason to make sure it doesn't happen again is a more difficult task.

Keep the speakers and cob up a new amp for them. A nice little amp can be had for less than the cost of replacement parts and your time.

nitrogen_widget:
Was going to build a steel roof over my deck.
priced everything out and realized I could just buy a metal hard top gazebo kit from big lots for hella-cheaper with their spring sale and get curtains and skeeter netting to boot.
put that together.
those kits come in two boxes and they are not light.
I've lagged it to the deck so it don't blow away and then lagged those deck boards to the supports underneath because they were only held on by nails and i've seen them pop up in a good storm on a friends gazebo.

I had an old 4 person patio set made of solid metal with lots of decorative bends for the backs of the chairs and the table under the glass.
made for lots of wire brushing and having to paint from many sides to cover.
then because the seats had no wood I got some plywood, painted that and ordered cushions from target.
fits under gazebo with the glider perfectly.

built a 10ft gate for the side of my house.

hacked my shrubs down until sunlight was able to reach the inside from the top and declared "they'll come back". I don't know why but every old guy I've known got excited about hacking their shrubs down to nothing every few springs and saying "they'll come back". and they do.

My hop plants leaped out of the ground the last few days.
they were barely peaking out on friday but after a few days of sun one is over a foot tall and the other's are close behind.
I need to restring the trellis for them.

pbj:
Got up on the roof today. Had 4 trees growing up there so they needed to come down. Some of the leaves had composted into dirt and turns out there was a giant ant bed, so now I'm covered in ant bites. Didn't die, though.

Vacuum cleaner blew the belt, so I went on an expedition to find one. Decided to clean out the vacuum cleaner while I was at it. I cannot unsee the amount of dog and wife hair I cleaned out of that thing. I also cannot unsee the amount of dirt and hair I pulled out of my carpets after I hit them with a cleaned unit.

bobbyb13:

--- Quote from: pbj on May 19, 2020, 04:53:42 pm ---Got up on the roof today. Had 4 trees growing up there so they needed to come down. Some of the leaves had composted into dirt and turns out there was a giant ant bed, so now I'm covered in ant bites. Didn't die, though.

Vacuum cleaner blew the belt, so I went on an expedition to find one. Decided to clean out the vacuum cleaner while I was at it. I cannot unsee the amount of dog and wife hair I cleaned out of that thing. I also cannot unsee the amount of dirt and hair I pulled out of my carpets after I hit them with a cleaned unit.

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All so terrifying at times, ain't it?
As one with rather short hair my whole life I never knew those horrors until I fell in love and moved in with a hair farmer.
Now I'm shocked with how often the drains need to be snaked- and how nasty the spoils of that adventure are. :cry:

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