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I picked up a Hifonics Colossus VI (ZED Audio boards) off of a board member a week or so ago for a song. It was a little bit rough and I anticipated that it would need some work. I tore it down over the week and tested and scoped it all out, and found that she needed a couple of capacitors and a couple of resisters to get it back up and running on both channels. I picked up the components last night on my way from work. I decided that while I have the boards out of the heat sink that I will also replace the dual 8 gauge power supply leads to dual 4 gauge, so that I can feed this thing the power that it really requires to do it's thing. I am stoked about this amp and am running out now to pick up the new power wiring. I am also beefing up the power supply a little while it's apart, as these have a little more potential that "out of the box" for say.:smokin::cheeky4:

Well so far I have replaced all the bad components, beefed up the power supply, and replaced all the internal 8awg power wire with 4awg. I still have to replace the RCA block as the old one was chewed and install new speaker output leads and a new output terminal block. I'm also going to make a new pair of end caps because one was missing, plus I changed the wiring configuration a little which changed where the exit locations are on the existing end cap. After that its just a matter of putting the boards back into the heat sink and then a test run. These amps actually use a pair of 2 channel boards which are internally bridged mono and then the two are strapped together to operate as a 2 channel (dual mono).:stroke:

Boards are back in, just a couple little things left to do. Heres a couple of pics of the damage before and after the repairs.

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Looking at the picture of the boards on their side, see if you count the row down just one side of this monster? That is a full size coffee table it is sitting on.

Let me know how she works for ya.

It's working well now, but I am going to need a much more serious pair of subs if I am going to run this amp.:smokin:

So modding the amp in this fashion actually helps it put out some more watts?

you got it for a song???

Oreo's for a $1.88, Sounds like a deal to me :cheeky4:

These amps will make considerably more power than they were rated at, provided the power supply is rock solid and you supply adequate amperage to the board to feed them.

I got it cheap in other words. It looked rough when I first got it, and it needed some repairs. I cleaned up the heat sink with some triple 0 steel wool and it looks pretty good now, and then did the required repairs. All the mosfets were good, it only needed a pair of resisters and a couple of capacitors to get it running. I also changed a few power supply supply components and re-wired the boards while I had it apart.

nice i get ya good job man i have no idea how to do all that but awesome 4 you

After a lot of work I've it ready to go in. I spent the last couple of days beefing up the power in my truck to feed this thing. It will be going in tomorrow after work.

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Lmao. What a beast! Someone really beat the crap out of it.

I picked up something more powerful and am keeping this one pretty much for backup only.

nice man.
I had a few of the vi series, now all i have a dozen vii.....
hehe