Ok, so just a couple of observations in the meantime ; the more i look at the innards of this thing (it's actually amazing how you can have a sense of doing something just by looking at something incomprehensible, i must have something wrong with me), the more i get the feeling that something fishy has been done to it. I just found in the wire-bunch

[quote user="Dillen"]Does it read a steady zero ohm across the cap when mounted ?[/quote] Well, at the scale of 2000k it's a steady zero, and at 2000 it's 364 steady. Am i right by understanding that the caps should be tested with the highest value available on the meter (mine is 2000k) ? [quote user="Dillen"]Also check the

[quote user="Dillen"]You can desolder one side of the large power supply filter capacitor and measure across it like you did capacitor 514.[/quote] That's the enormous blue one (1000uF), right ? Same thing, raises slower but goes on forever and seems fine. Sebastian

Ok, i desoldered the minus (-) leg. Across the capacitor = slowly raises to infinity (so now it means it was ok then). I'm not sure what you mean by "on the board tracks", but if it means the solder joint of the leg that is still soldered (+) on the underside of the board, and directly the desoldered leg, then that's the same (raises

[quote user="Dillen"]Let's have an ohm reading (unpowered of course) across capacitor 514.[/quote] On the scale of 200, i get a reading of 00.3 (which means to me it's not shorted, right ?) [EDIT] In fact no, it's exactly the contrary, i believe. It should go up progressively if it was working, right ? Told you i was useless in

Ok, so with a new fuse in place, when plugged to electricity, the SP1446 regulator transistor at the back gets extremely hot within seconds. I disconnected the unit immediately. Now what does this say ? [EDIT] In the meantime, i looked a little closer, and the red wire leaving from the SP1446 has melting marks (seen how it gets hot, no surprise) [EDIT

Hi, thanks so much for your quick replies, and your warm welcome. I started by measuring the fuses, and what do you know, i should've certainly done it even before posting here ; the second mains fuse (the 0,25A one with a little "springy" wire), even though perfect visually, is dead. The other two are fine. So i'm off to try and find

Hi there everybody, this is one of those "just registered and the first post is a help request" situations. Sorry for that. But i'm no complete stranger to this forum, and as a lurker have searched and read everything i can find during a last week or so, but without result. I'm no *real* amateur of B&O, nor a collector, just someone