L.S. I am looking for a mission Cambridge schematic or service doc. The problem is every few seconds a huge TICK sound in the speakers. I thought it was a malfunctioning ELCO but all are ok. So i am in the blind now, any one with a sugestion please do mail me.
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"Cees Keyer" bravely wrote to "All" (17 Aug 05 09:41:56) --- on the heady topic of "WTD Mission cambridge amplifier"
A periodic click may be an intermittant oscillation whenever the output stage clips or reaches some threshold value but perhaps it may be a speaker problem, have you tried testing them?
An oscillation is often due to a marginal bypassing or poor supply regulation. Sometimes the feedback loop is involved in combination with an highly capacitive speaker load. For instance some fat specially speaker cables are known to introduce enough capacitance to make some amplifier outputs unstable.
Alternately, a driver stage with weak gain may be saturating and cutting off the feedback signal which might make the outputs hit the rails and the click you hear.
Does the click happen at low listening levels or only at normal to loud playing?
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CK> L.S. CK> I am looking for a mission Cambridge schematic or service doc. CK> The problem is every few seconds a huge TICK sound in the speakers. CK> I thought it was a malfunctioning ELCO but all are ok. CK> So i am in the blind now, any one with a sugestion please do mail me.
CK> remove -no-spam- from the e-mail address. CK> TnX in advance
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