HI,
My CA Azur 751R has just returned from the repair shop.
Unfortunately, the decoder board is faulty, and unrepairable
CA in their ultimate wisdom, don't keep parts after a few years, so cannot provide another!!
Anybody got any advice? - any alternative source of parts?, or advice to attempt a possible repair/
or how much this would be worth to sell as parts??
Many Thanks
pootler.
My CA Azur 751R has just returned from the repair shop.
Unfortunately, the decoder board is faulty, and unrepairable
CA in their ultimate wisdom, don't keep parts after a few years, so cannot provide another!!
Anybody got any advice? - any alternative source of parts?, or advice to attempt a possible repair/
or how much this would be worth to sell as parts??
Many Thanks
pootler.
You asked for advice. I gave you the best answer I could based on decades of experience.
Some of it sadly wasted on CA junk.
CA import/re badge cheap rubbish that will fail.
By the time it fails, parts (board assemblies) will not be available.
If you want to study electronics for a few years, then garner all the real world skills not taught in any course, then diagnose the faulty board, finding out which parts are faulty, to discover those parts are NLA.
Then have it.
The only 'replacement' boards ca have ever sent me have been second hand ones salvaged from units they themselves cant repair.
Boards that are also faulty.
See the pattern here ?
Most CA gear will have common failures.
So if the logic/control board in one is faulty, it will more than likely also be faulty in every other unit of that model.
If you want to trawl through sale ads for a few years you might get lucky and find one that had a different failure and have a usable board that failed in yours.
But honestly, their not worth the effort or time.
I stand by my comment.
Bin it.
Some of it sadly wasted on CA junk.
CA import/re badge cheap rubbish that will fail.
By the time it fails, parts (board assemblies) will not be available.
If you want to study electronics for a few years, then garner all the real world skills not taught in any course, then diagnose the faulty board, finding out which parts are faulty, to discover those parts are NLA.
Then have it.
The only 'replacement' boards ca have ever sent me have been second hand ones salvaged from units they themselves cant repair.
Boards that are also faulty.
See the pattern here ?
Most CA gear will have common failures.
So if the logic/control board in one is faulty, it will more than likely also be faulty in every other unit of that model.
If you want to trawl through sale ads for a few years you might get lucky and find one that had a different failure and have a usable board that failed in yours.
But honestly, their not worth the effort or time.
I stand by my comment.
Bin it.
If the amps inside are are still working, You can use them with some sort of external decoder. Perhaps one of those China HDMI to 5.1 units.