Basscube 10s

[famousmockingbird]

I can get a free non working Cambridge Soundworks Basscube 10s but I have to drive a half an hour both ways to pick it up. I was thinking if these sound decent and I can fix it up for cheap than what the hey.

From what I read online these are notorious for breaking. Is it worth driving and getting? Anybody have any experience with these?

 

[famousmockingbird]

bump

 

[sreten]

Hi,

Depends how good you are at fixing stuff and lots of other things.

rgds, sreten.

 

[famousmockingbird]

Hi,

Depends how good you are at fixing stuff and lots of other things.

rgds, sreten.

I guess we are going to find out😉 I am on my way to get it now.

 

[famousmockingbird]

The driver is good and there is power just no sound out of it.

Anybody have a schematic for this?

Thanks

 

[famousmockingbird]

I got it working but if you turn the volume up past halfway it goes into protection mode.

Any suggestions?

 

[sreten]

Hi,

Information overload ..... not ......

How did you get it working ? How do you know
halfway is not overload for the level your driving it ?

Does it go into protection mode with no input ?
Might indicate a stabilty issue .....

rgds, sreten.

 

[famousmockingbird]

Well I saw there was no power going to the IC's and while doing some probing I heard the relay click back in. So not really sure what I did.

I am thinking the vibration of the sub when I turn it up past half is what is tripping the relay. On the bench with no load I get up to 28vrms clean sine waves but when I tap the circuit board it trips the relay into protection mode.

At the same volume level setting where it was going into protection mode I get 18v out with 1.6v 100Hz sine waves going to the inputs. I believe the amp is rated for 75watts so maybe it is the protection circuit kicking in under load because that's in the ballpark for output power.

A schematic would help but some web searching turned up nothing. Maybe if I contact the manufacturer they can send me a service manual.

 

[rwpg]

Question

did you ever get the Basscube-10s working? I have the same issue and was wondering if you got to the bottom of the problem

 

[turk 182]

if it's reacting to tapping on the board i would pull out the magnifying glass and check all solder joints for intermittant/cracked joints

 

[rwpg]

it's reacting to volume, have not tried tapping the PC board. Over half volume it cuts out (the relay switches off). I'll re-solder the joints and see if that helps. Thanks for the reply