4 channel issues

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

my 4 channel isn't working for some reason. it's a clarion apa 4203. was working fine, started cutting out id turn the hu off n on and it'd work fine. now it's just not working at all. I've checked all the wires and they are fine. maybe it finally quit after 24 years. here are pics of the board anything look wrong?

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[bmk6795 10+ year member]

@ciaonzo ;

you wanted to see the guts on this when i had it for sale. also has a small fan on the heat sink.

 

[basswiigee]

lol, after 24yrs... quality there... i'm sure some amp guru will be able to tell you... good luck

 

[ciaonzo 5,000+ posts]

[quote name='bmk6795']@ciaonzo ;

you wanted to see the guts on this when i had it for sale. also has a small fan on the heat sink.[/QUOTE]Cool, thank you!

Looks very similar to some older Sony builds, those had IC's that would need replaced after a while.

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

Cool, thank you!
Looks very similar to some older Sony builds, those had IC's that would need replaced after a while.

iIC's?

 

[Knowmadic 10+ year member]

It's been 24 years, I think it has run its life man.

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

It's been 24 years, I think it has run its life man.

yeah that's what I'm thinking but nothing on it looks bad, to me at least.

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

bump

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

bump

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

update, the amp powers on but does not produce sound out of any channels, tried all 4, andtried using different rcas. oh and the amp is 14.years old not 24

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

up toppp

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

up up

 

[Jes 42 10+ year member]

up up

Maybe submit a ticket to db-r and see what they say..

 

[smgreen20 10+ year member]

You caught yourself, I was going to say that amps not a day over 15 years. And to whom.. It's not an IC chip amp. It's not to easy an amp to take apart more then what you already have. Test your FETs. There's a video on youtube somewhere that shows you how. Start there and IF you can/want, check the back side of the board.

 

[bmk6795 10+ year member]

You caught yourself, I was going to say that amps not a day over 15 years. And to whom.. It's not an IC chip amp. It's not to easy an amp to take apart more then what you already have. Test your FETs. There's a video on youtube somewhere that shows you how. Start there and IF you can/want, check the back side of the board.

Lol yeah it was made in 99, for some reason when I told myself it was made in 89. Alright ill look into checking the fets. Thanks for the info. Ill prolly end up replacing it as you can most likely get just as much, if not more, power than this amp puts out for the cost of the repair, and with it being this old and something failing I could get it repaired and then something else fail a few days after.