My RF1501 BD

[Zeptoplix 10+ year member]

This is the amp I had been using to power my four JBL p1022s. The amp handled it awesome once I did the mod to run it at one ohm. Anyways after doing some other repairs (re soldering positive and negative terminals) I guess a tiny blob of solder made it into the case and shorted the amp out.

So for three weeks I have been without an amp, but I ordered parts from Rockford to fix it (two mesha strips) and have been waiting. Its the third week and it was supposed to be two, but not a big deal. Yesterday,. the g/f views her credit card bill. its $100 more then it was supposed to be. why?

I am in Canada. So they converted the prices to Canadian. Not a big deal since the dollars are pretty much the same right? Well somewhere along the line, they must still converting the dollar at 70 cents to the USD, because the parts, at $72 and $85, a gain pot, at like $4 plus shipping converts to $285CDN. Thats not cool. I love this amp, but really, goin through the classifieds I could have found a decent amp for the same price that was equal or greater to this ones performance.

What do you think i should do? Send the parts back? Just not accept them and get the charges reversed? Is the amp even worth spending $300 on?

With no sub amp, Im lugging around like 250lbs of shit just to kill gas mileage.

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[valter 10+ year member]

Call them and ask to explain additional charges. If charges exceeds invoice and they can't make it right - dispute with CC company.

Any repair shop will fix this amp for well under $150. Well, without special equipment you can desolder/put back FET's on MESHA strip with 100W soldering iron for stained glass. Won't be too pretty, but 100% functional.

 

[Zeptoplix 10+ year member]

They got a hold of me this afternoon.

Elaine, the lady i dealt with (super nice btw) investigated it further. Turns out their finance department used a conversion rate from 2004. :dunno: You would think they would update that more often, like maybe once a year at least. Anyways, they are supposed to credit back $100 to the card, and the parts are to be here on Tuesday.

Are the fets actually soldered to the strip? I was looking at them, and some of them I can't even get a part number off of, but with the new ones i will be able to get them and order new fets to repair the old strips just in case scenario, you know what I mean? But i had no idea how they were attached.

 

[valter 10+ year member]

Are the fets actually soldered to the strip? I was looking at them, and some of them I can't even get a part number off of, but with the new ones i will be able to get them and order new fets to repair the old strips just in case scenario, you know what I mean? But i had no idea how they were attached.

Yep, 100-150W watt soldering iron will do the trick //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[BassAce 10+ year member]

Make sure you thoroughly check out every component around the amplifier and around the mesha strips to make sure they are not the real source of the mosfets burning out.