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Phase Linear 400 Refurbishing Project
OldiesButGoodies:
Creating a thread to store pictures from my slowly unfolding Phase Linear 400 refurb.
As purchased:
Untitled by Jose Sifontes, on Flickr
One of the power supply can caps was shorted so I replaced them with a slightly higher value and voltage set of caps (from 5900 uf to 6800 uf):
Untitled by Jose Sifontes, on Flickr
The new cans are smaller and do not use screw terminals, so had to use a rubber spacer to retain the original mount and adapt O terminals so the original Phase Linear wiring was not affected:
Untitled by Jose Sifontes, on Flickr
Also added bypass caps per OCCD's suggestion:
Untitled by Jose Sifontes, on Flickr
I bought all the caps to redo the driver board:
Untitled by Jose Sifontes, on Flickr
But it sounds so good as-is that I am thinking of not doing anything to that board for now (if not broken, don't fix it..)
Next is the install of the blue-LED mod and the speaker protection relays (neither has arrived). And finding a Phase Linear 2000 to pair it up with.
Will post pics after that as well.
:)
OBG
F1nut:
Looks fine so far. I like the wood cabinet.
I'm sure you meant 5900uF, right?
OldiesButGoodies:
--- Quote from: F1nut on June 04, 2016, 09:09:57 PM ---Looks fine so far. I like the wood cabinet.
I'm sure you meant 5900uF, right?
--- End quote ---
Yes! corrected that typo... Thanks for the + feedback Jesse.
Reg,
OBG
Kingman:
What led you to try a Phase Linear Pepe?
OldiesButGoodies:
This Phase Linear 400 showed up on Clist locally at a good price, so I snatched it. I want to have a second system so I thought I could use this as the starting point. Never owned a pre-Carver Carver product and I liked the fact that it came with a wood case in good shape. Happy so far - just afraid to use it with the big speakers until the relay is installed!
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