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to: Charles Angelich
from: Matt Mc_Carthy
date: 2003-04-17 02:55:48
subject: fried the amplifier?

15 Apr 2003, 06:37, Charles Angelich (1:106/2000), wrote to All:

Hi Charles.

 CA> speaker had 15v marked on the power input socket. It worked and
 CA> worked well. When I moved them I already had a 12v wall wart
 CA> plugged into the power strip so I plugged _that_ one in instead
 CA> of the 9v. It hummed with the switch turned off so I
 CA> immediately unplugged it. Not soon enough apparently. The left
 CA> side speaker only clicked for awhile then stopped and would do
 CA> nothing. The right side works but the left seems to be fried? 

 CA> I really don't understand why since the 12v was less than the
 CA> 15v marked on the speaker containing the amplifier? 

Hmmm... "It hummed with the switch off...", and "The right
side works...".

It all looks to me like the 9V power unit was DC which the speakers were
looking for, and the 12V power unit was an AC one.   :-((


     Good luck...  M.

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