camshaft: My Logitech Harmony 550 is one of the lower end Logitech remotes, but it controls my beosystem 4500 perfectly. I'm very happy with it, but haven't tried it with any of the modern B&O systems. I believe it would work just fine - the culprit is the 455 kHz carrier frequency, which is almost exclusively used by B&O and isn't

camshaft: Peter : You need either speaker link or Powerlink and a new missus. Edited Peter's response to make it more accurate Well, she was almost right - actually they are "out of space 19 8 9" Must have been radical back then, but I have to admit that the Pentas look somewhat 90s today. Still, just the other day I gawked at them and

Well, no sweat - I leafed through the entire service manual and couldn't find such a spring anywhere. I'll keep it in guarantene for a month or two, then throw it away if I still don't know where it came from Glad it didn't short out anything flying around in the insides...

Alex: I come for the information and chatter, but I stay for the Drama! haha :-D Yeah, I also wonder where these "conflicts" keep on coming from I remember reading the problem post we're discussing - I wouldn't have doomed it worth deleting (just utterly stupid) if it had also contained a single word of useful information. Sadly, it

stevequinn: Presuming this was the problem all along, has anyone any ideas 'why' D6 would have failed? Common semiconductors like 1N4148 are used by the millions, and a lot of research has gone to their failure mechanisms and how they can be avoided. Power surges, static electricity, moisture and heat, among others, can kill them, and they may

I was doing the final adjusments for my Beogram 6000 (the old one) today, and found a loose spring near the transformer. It's a rather soft coil spring, about 6 mm in diameter and 10 mm long. I couldn't see any obvious place for it and the turntable is working fine - does this sound like it has been accidentally dropped inside the machine and

Elsewhere on the forum, I've learned that the old Philips cap range now belong to BC Components of Vishay, and this particular cap family is called 138AML. Available globally from www.digikey.com, www.segor.de apparently sells the same stuff; I just ordered today a bunch of them and an assortment of plastic caps for my other current & future

Medogsfat: I'm a Parisian frogman and I'm always insane (in seine) groan.................... Well, I'm an engineer, I was working at the pub for the last four hours, and my Pentas are still 150 cm high! Off to the Wednesday© thread...

Jandyt: My guess is that the Beovox Penta is therefore 140 cm, give or take an inch. It's higher than that; I'm 183 cm or something, and the 'voxes are almost up to my chin (and no, my head isn't that big). I'll post an exact measurement in the evening, if the question remains still open then

Well, not on paper, but in a darkened room I see a definite red glow on the lens, so I guess there's hope. The lens goes up and down too while hunting for focus, so I believe the control and mechanics are basically OK. I'll read a little more on this to find out where to measure and what before turning anything, I remember the warnings about