Orion 2500D mods (pics of bad rework?)

[Trez0r 10+ year member]

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=253609

Dont know if that is the original owner but sxkicker89 posted in there and may have bought it for 175shipped? and than he did the repair or had someone who has done the repair.. only thing is that tommy21077 and sxkicker 89 havent signed on within 20 days //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[2002XLT 5,000+ posts]

Nm

 

[Atimm693 10+ year member]

Dude, someone jizzed on your amp internals!!!

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Its the Village amp, everyones had a turn.

 

[Trez0r 10+ year member]

After seeing that last pic, I cant believe I actually used that amp //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Do you have the amps vin number? I'll run a carfax report on it.

 

[Trez0r 10+ year member]

rofl

 

[AdrianD 10+ year member]

That's why amp repairs should be done by people who actually know what they are doing..

Blow it then sell it to me //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[c_hayhurst 10+ year member]

Powered up fine for me when I had it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif
And he bought it from me, and I bought it from tommy21077 and he bought it from sxkicker89, when I bought it from tommy, I put it in my jimmy, hooked it up, powered my subs and worked fine. decided to go another route and sold it for the usual asking price of an orion 2500D. Not once did I ever look the guts //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

Feedback thread on sxkicker89. Be very careful when dealing with this guy, if it all.

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showthread.php?t=282215

 

[garrettpf 10+ year member]

I am glad this did not turn into a blame thing. I told Trez0r that I didn't want to do that. It is what it is and now the tramp is mine //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif.

I am going to fix the bad solder joints myself but before I do that I would like to know what quality parts went back in. If they are not the same as or better then OEM I want to replace them. I would also like to know why that one trace was cut they way it is. I assume this is to prevent some over load protection.

Does anyone know how I can find this stuff out or where? Do I have to call some place like db-r and hope they will help me out even though I am not sending to them (although I would buy the parts from them).

Thanks for the input so far and as I said, I will take pics of the re-work that I do //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif There is someone on the forums with a blown visionik that I said I would fix for free plus parts. This way he can atleast see that I am not full of shit when I say I can solder to the extreme //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

 

[dleccord 5,000+ posts]

Mark Potts you say?

 

[revrider1 5,000+ posts]

Ouch, looks dirty

 

[valter 10+ year member]

Crappy repair job

 

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

I would just retouch all the solder connections.

You would be waisting your time desoldering and resoldering all of the connections there. Plus the extra heat might damage the components...

 

[garrettpf 10+ year member]

I am just got finished touching all the solder joints up. Everything went pretty good but they had so much shit on there it would have been easier on a few of the FETS to remove but I will wait on that to figure out if I can upgrade them. Also the transformer coil had so much silicone and hot glue it would have again been eaier to remove them but it is late and I want this thing in my car tomorrow //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

Right now I am replacing the screws that are wrong, missing or broken (they broke a screw on the clamps for the fets //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/mad.gif.c18f003ab0ef8a0d9c27ca78d77a6392.gif If I had a dollar for each bad solder joint and effed up screw, I would make my money back //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

I am also going to replace the bottom cover as that thing is bent to shit. I have some 1/8" aluminum sheet laying around (from the 16' twin tower I built //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif) and will use that instead of the thing gauge OEM junk.