Home stereo automatically cutting off?

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

I have a Sharp receiver that has worked forever but just decides to cut off as soon as I turn it on now...anybody have any input on what might be wrong with it?

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[loud-n-low 10+ year member]

if its toast i have a nice 2 channel onkyo for ya

 

[JimJ 5,000+ posts]

How long is forever?

Could need replacement of caps, or just bought the farm because of low-quality soldering work or PCB traces...

 

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

See that's the thing, I honestly can't tell. I mean I've had this thing forever and I'm not sure why I had it wired the way I did but I had both speaker's (rated @ 6ohm's) wired in series to only one channel on the back of the receiver but I'm not sure if that would be the cause, because like I said, it's worked like that forever.

Loud, how much for your onkyo?

 

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

How long is forever?
Could need replacement of caps, or just bought the farm because of low-quality soldering work or PCB traces...

6 years roughly

 

[loud-n-low 10+ year member]

100 shipped. does a loud 50x2 @ 8 ohms and its 4 ohm stable

 

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

Two 6 ohm svc speakers wired in parallel = a 3 ohm load, correct?

 

[terra 5,000+ posts]

no

 

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

edited, sorry i meant parallel....does that make my statement true now? or is it still a no

 

[BigCatSmile 10+ year member]

that receiver must already be beat if your tying both speakers to one channel and @ 3 ohm load too...

 

[BigCatSmile 10+ year member]

and like the other guy said it might just be some bad caps.

 

[CMattox23 10+ year member]

that receiver must already be beat if your tying both speakers to one channel and @ 3 ohm load too...

Na I was just asking that question because I gave up on the receiver. I got extremely bored tonight and pulled a 250watt power supply out of my old desktop, wired it up to a 4 channel amp I had, and used the speakers from my old receiver. Just got confused because each speaker box (I have two) has a 6ohm tweeter and a 6ohm mid-bass driver. So I was thinking that I was putting a 3ohm load on each channel. Then again, I have no idea I think I might have over thought it all lol. Please correct me if I'm wrong...