I have a Harman Kardon SUBTS15 subwoofer with problems. I would like to try fixing it myself. I have basic troubleshooting experience (including solde ring skills), but I don?t know what I should next (besides tossing it). Here?s what it does, and what doesn?t. When I power it up, the front led lights amber, and after a couple of secon ds turns blue (and stays blue). At that moment you can hear a loud thump (c ouple of thumps actually). While on, there is no sound coming from the spea ker. If you feed a signal (at the line level, with test tone from receiver) , you can hear it extremely faint (the volume does not modify that). When p owered down, another thump. What I checked: the relay works both when turning on and off (both times co incide with the thumps). The +/- 15 V are both OK. At the visual inspection , there is some discoloration (darkened color) of resistor R146 and 149 (es pecially 146 that looks a bit burned) but both test correctly 330 ohms. The PCB around them also looks a bit darkened. Any idea where to look for? I doubt that the issue comes from the ?darken ed? area. The troubleshooting flow chart does not help, as the led does n ot turn red or green (only blue, and stays blue).
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10 years ago