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Old November 22nd 03, 02:38 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Ian Molton
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Default Confession time

On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 09:39:53 +0000 (GMT)
Jim Lesurf wrote:

That is odd. The protection was - particularly in earlier models - too
severe. However it really *should* protect the output devices. Were some
small signal devices earlier in the amp also damaged? If so, it may be that
this lead to a failure that the protection system isn't designed to deal
with.


on one board yes - the class A 'pre' driver failed.

on the other, just the output transistors.

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