Happy Day
01-19-2008, 10:12 AM
#1
Happy Day
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.
01-19-2008, 05:17 PM
#2
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).
01-20-2008, 02:50 PM
#4
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.
Last edited by The Wizard; 01-20-2008 at 02:53 PM.
01-26-2008, 04:17 PM
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