Another newb with a broken amp...
Hello, new to the forum and a search has introduced me to the fact that you use a lot of inverters...
I have a Cambridge A5 which was running via a Sterling Qpower 1KW quasi sine inverter. The inverter lost a phase and seems to have killed quite a lot of kit although anything with a switched mode supply seems to have survived.
To save people searching the profileI ive on a boat with 12v inverted up for certain uses.
I just mounted the replacement inverter, a Mastervolt 2k pure sine; if that's any help. Not new though, we're not made of money...
Either way, I cracked the case of my amp to find the 2A slow blow input fuse blown; while doing so I popped to fuses past the transformer and checked the rectifier diodes which seemed fine.
In the absence of any obvious scorched bits other than the fuse I plugged it in again but it simply blew the input fuse again. We had the boat engine running and there was obviously a sudden significant load on the electrics which lifted when the little blue light went out on the amp 
My question is simple... Is it worth trying to fix or is it likely to be uneconomic; bearing in mind it's sub £100 amp. It's just in my repair, renew recycling, sustainable hippy way I'd rather try to rescue it before consigning it to the bin...
Cheers all... Forum looks pretty cool if a lot of it's over my head.
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