orion 1200d wcc BLOWN capactors

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

Everyone and Anyone who has an orion 1200d amp.

here is what i need. i need for someone to pull off the back cover of there amp and look at the capacitors and tell me what is writen on top of them.

basicaly my buddies blow 8 caps so bad i can't even read them any more he basically melted them. i called up orion tech support and they can not and will not release the information to me.

so please someone take 10mins and help me out! see pics as to which 8 caps i need! thanks you for any and all help

Kenneth

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[teamquakecelica 10+ year member]

hey pal....

those are MOSFETS not caps.... might help your cause

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

lol o man i am retarded thanks for the correction!

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

bump bump anyone to help a poor boy out?

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

no one has an orion 1200d who has a pic of the mosfets?

 

[groundpound4200 5,000+ posts]

You gonna try and repair it yourself?

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

Google it.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

You gonna try and repair it yourself?

x2

You didn't even know they were mosfets.

Just send it to a repair center and get it over with.

 

[Blazin_Jason 10+ year member]

Look on the other side of the board as well.

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

well i am not going to repair it myself b/c i don't have my sodering stuff over here while i am going to school lol hell i don't even have a torques driver to call my own lol! goign away to school is *****! lol!

basically i need to get the 8 blown mosfets then the shop will sodder them for me!

b/c i need to know what to buy to fix it!

look on the other side of the board... it is that easy?

 

[CrazyKenKid 10+ year member]

well i jsut got in contact with a shop and they had this to say about the amp

"The mosfets you need are IRF3205. You can buy them anywhere you can buy parts made by International Rectifier usually. In Canada, try Future Electronics.

Problem is, replacing the mosfets likely won't do you any good. There are likely many other bad parts in the amp. The mosfets are massively rugged and only a dead short somewhere else in the amp, like a blown output mosfet, or a transformer winding short would cause them to blow, abuse alone usually won't do it. It will likely just go back up in smoke instantly when you turn it on after replacing the mosfets. This is because there is FAR more to amp repair than just replacing mosfets, you have driver transistors, gate resistors, control IC's etc that all typically fail when the mosfets fail and will also need to be replaced, in addition to whatever caused it to blow the mosfets in the first place will need to be repaired as well. You are better off putting this amp in the closet and buying a newer model amp, like the Sundown SAE-1000D or for more kick you can get a Sundown SAZ-1500D or SAE-3000D. The Sundown amps are just as good if not better than that old Orion amp. The Sundown amps, especially the SAE-1000D and SAZ-1500D are simply improved versions of the same design that is used in your Orion 1200D with more parts for more power. Yes, the Sundown SAE-1000D will likely make just as much power as your Orion 1200D did, the SAZ-1500D will make almost double the power of your Orion 1200D."

so with that i close this thread and toss the amp! lol! thanks guys!