Car Amp Repairs

[Timmothy Web 10+ year member]

yea. i work beside ups and they throw stuff around throw boxes on the lines. run over stuff. zach is really bummed about it.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

yea. i work beside ups and they throw stuff around throw boxes on the lines. run over stuff. zach is really bummed about it.

Yea, I'm sure. He busted his *** on it.

As for the shipping, the packing was awesome, no damage at all. As for board support... that is all speculation. We have a conf. call tomorrow to see what can or cant be done.

 

[SilverSquared 10+ year member]

Man his work looks to be spot on, in my book. Sorry about ur 8.1. Looks like it would have been a beast to run.

Zach...I have 2 second generation Orion HCCA amps, a 250 and a 2100. Both power supplies went out. Here's what went on...upon installation, I put a level adjustment knob in line with the RCAs...right next to the head unit. When adjusting, they made the amps bug out, and toasting my power supply. The level adjustment knob is brand new, I would like to send it WITH the amps so you can check and see what the hell could be the issue. Just let me know when I can send them in (((Two Planet Audio AC5000.1D amps are NOT equal to my 2100, lol)))

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

Loving the love for the OS HCCAs!

As for the 8.1, I am hoping there is some glimmer of hope, as it would be a shame to have such a **** amp be forgotten

 

[Timmothy Web 10+ year member]

i seen it. it doesnt look bad at all. a few transistor cooked. coulda been weak parts.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

i seen it. it doesnt look bad at all. a few transistor cooked. coulda been weak parts.

Well given I just spent $600 on a repair and got nothing but smoke, um yea it looks bad, because just one part being bad puts my investment in the toilet. Beyond that you can't see all the surface mount components that are burnt in that same area. I would actually feel much better about it if we had screwed up and connected it backwards or while playing to voltage dropped or a coil on a sub went south, and it blew. At this point I don't know even if we track down every little part that blew, if I invest to put it back together, will it do the same thing? We jsut don't know what the hell happened.

I want to say for the record, that Zachs work looks great, and his communication was stellar, even today, we talked and he is doing what I consider to be his best to figure this out without just giving knee jerk solutions.

 

[Timmothy Web 10+ year member]

zach will get it right.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

zach will get it right.

that would be nice

 

[zach90z 10+ year member]

Im 100% sure its not week parts all surface mount resisters and transistors were replaced in that amplifier in the power supply section and all power supply fets were replaced. The only thing that could have caused that is a short.

The reapir for that would only take a fews hours and about $15 in parts the biggest pain about this amp is the way they designed the heat sink and clamp assembly makes having to take it apart a pain.

Kent email me or call me.

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

Well I will only say this Zach seems to have a good heart, but unfortunately he is completely unable to take care of an issue should it arise as it relates to the repair he has done.

Because of my experiance I unfortunately cannot give my recommendation to Zach.

 

[PPI_GUY 10+ year member]

There hasn't been any updates in this thread for nearly a month. Anybody know what's going on? I've got an amp that needs repair and I am on the list but, haven't had any response to my inquiries.

 

[Shinju 10+ year member]

Well I will only say this Zach seems to have a good heart, but unfortunately he is completely unable to take care of an issue should it arise as it relates to the repair he has done.
Because of my experiance I unfortunately cannot give my recommendation to Zach.

Kmanian, All do respect he did exactly what you paid for him to do. You gave him a busted up amp a DAT amp none the less, that have a very high failure rate and most of those Hellfires are unrepairable I have seen several of those going around blown and not one person seems to have success repairing them. From reading this thread the amp you sent him to repair was abused to hell and back and you knew this sending it in that there was a chance that it might not work.

You took a gamble with that amplifier and Zack repairing it who even said he was just starting out doing repairs, What do you want him to do give your 600.00 bucks back? Does he not deserve to be paid for the work he has done thus so far? From Zacks videos he seems to have taken the time and really dive into that DAT amplifier .

Just curious has he stopped all communication with you?

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

Kmanian, All do respect he did exactly what you paid for him to do. You gave him a busted up amp a DAT amp none the less, that have a very high failure rate and most of those Hellfires are unrepairable I have seen several of those going around blown and not one person seems to have success repairing them. From reading this thread the amp you sent him to repair was abused to hell and back and you knew this sending it in that there was a chance that it might not work.
You took a gamble with that amplifier and Zack repairing it who even said he was just starting out doing repairs, What do you want him to do give your 600.00 bucks back? Does he not deserve to be paid for the work he has done thus so far? From Zacks videos he seems to have taken the time and really dive into that DAT amplifier .

Just curious has he stopped all communication with you?

1st Zach assured me in the beginning prior to even receiving the amp that if it was unrepairable he would refund my money. He assesed the amp when he recieved it and even modified the repair plan during the process, for which I paid in full for all parts and what he asked for as labor. He set the numbers not me. I recieved the amp in great condition, as I said previously I think his work looks great. However one of the fet hold downs (there are 2 different types) was put in the wrong location causing the hold down to touch the energised power rail and frying the realative power supply section. Zach stated he knows it was the wrong one but made sure it wasn't touching, and the shift must have happened during shipping, my stance is the double boxing looked great, there was no damage to the amp or the plexiglass inside the boxes, given the static position of the hold down it must have been installed inproperly for it to have been able to "shift" or it simply was put to close and didn't shift. No matter what the deal, it isn't my fault, and I sincerely don't believe it is a shipping issue.

the amp is up and running now, an is actually crazy powerful, but I need a few fets to replace ones we had to substitute as the correct ones were not available on island.

Either way, I have paid another $150 for a repair so far, and simply asked him to send me 12 supply fets and fedex them asap. His response was if I needed them I would have to pay for the fets, shipping to him, then the shipping to me. I diagreed with him, he said he would send me the 4 fets that were burnt, and that is all he could do as he was broke. For the cost of 4 fets, and waiting for the double shipment, I told him to forget it, I would order what I need and get some extra parts and fedex them myself.

My stance is Zach is a good guy and seems to be a decent technician, but does not have the does not have the resources to carry the liability just incase he makes a mistake. I am of the opinion that if the mistake is his, he should take care of it. As he cannot, my opinion is he should not be doing repairs.

Maybe one day when financial position improves he will be able to do repairs and not put the client at further risk.

As you have stated, he is a new resource for amp repair, and I am the or one of the first to use him, hence why my feedback may be of value to others.

Now once again I want to state, that Zach had great communicatioin, the work looked awesome, the packing for shipment was stellar. But the ability to take care of the issue after the fact simply isn't there.

 

[Timmothy Web 10+ year member]

he is busy with collage.even though the amp blew a pair of fets,he rebuilt that whole power supply and re wounded transformers. no one else would even touch those amps. and even being able to rebuild pwm circuits with out never having seen it before. not many advanced techs can do that. the group of fets that blew was a set back but he still rebuilt that amp.

 

[Timmothy Web 10+ year member]

and those fets are high for the real ones.