Convert Krell 300iL to European voltage

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Not sure if this is a correct description (somebody may be able to explain it better) but think of it as pc without the OS. You can turn it on, but are not able to do anything at all. Pretty clever way of protecting a product from cross border imports..
 
....earlier on the ps audio ps300 was suggested as a solution.......there is no chance that it is able to supply a krell poweramp, it's only good for 300 watts.

it's only able to supply a cdplayer and a preamp and no more.......:att'n:
 
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dear sir,

i gathered that you have done an oscilloscope for a few of your friends. can you tell me are the tracks in the same general location? ie is it near the microcontroller or near the transformer?

is there a specific number for the track? thanks

i have attached some pics of my eeprom
 

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chalky said:
Idly reading through this thread and noticed Huquin's post #137 regarding his Krell 400xi which seemed to power up fine on 110V 50Hz. Does this not suggest that the microcontroller senses the position of the voltage setting switches before it measures the frequency of the incoming mains?

The switches changes the main wiring of the transformer. If they are wrongly set and the amplifier is switched on, the amp receives the wrong voltage and something will surely get fried very badly.

Some more recent versions of Krell amps can operate at both frequencies. It seems all models originally produced for the european market fall into this category.
 
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samaudio said:
Hello ! I have read and desasemble the EEPROM data, and I found some data that content a program code, I presume that is the Talker I had loaded in this memory location...
What is the use of the EEPROM memory in this amplifier ???

Am not 100% sure but it seems to contain a few configuration parameters since a few address locations in eeprom space is referenced from the firmware. I think it's only like 6 bytes or so.
 
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james559 said:
i gathered that you have done an oscilloscope for a few of your friends. can you tell me are the tracks in the same general location? ie is it near the microcontroller or near the transformer?

is there a specific number for the track?

Am a bit confused; you're interested in checking if a different device uses the same method of frequency check to limit operation at 50Hz? Can you shared with us what device it is?

What you will need to do is to check with an oscilloscope if any of the pins on the mcu carries something resembling a 50 or 100 Hz signal. If you look at my original discovery post at page 13, you'll see that for the 300iL, it's pin 31.
 
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actually my query was directed at philbyx. coz he mentioned that he has done the voltage mod for a few different units of krell by constructing the nand gates.

so i like to check with him if the track which he did the mod on(ie which detect the 60hz signal) is indentical across the different units.

you mean you did the mod too? and its done on pin 31 leading to the motorola microcontroller? not on the eeprom?

if u see my 1st pic, the eeprom containing the sofware version is above the microcontroller

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FPB-200

I live in the US and have a FPB-200. I am now moving to Bangladesh and I will bring the Krell.

I also wentg the firmware patch route the code in my 68HC711E9 was slightly different. I had version 1.16 60Hz.
I hope my Krell will work when I get to Bangladesh.

Code:
Second_function_call
0400:  D394		CE1000		LDX	#$1000				Set index X to register base
0401:  D397		8655		LDAA	#$55				
0402:  D399		A73A		STAA	$3A,X				Arm the COP timer clearing mechanism
0403:  D39B		86AA		LDAA	#$AA				
0404:  D39D		A73A		STAA	$3A,X				Clear the COP timer
0405:  D39F		18CE0000CE	LDY	#$0000				clear 16 bit index register Y 
0406:  D3A3		1E0002FC	BRSET	$00,X,%00000010,$D3A3		Stay at this address while 1st bit is set in Port A 
0407:  D3A7		1F0002FC	BRCLR	$00,X,%00000010,$D3A7		Stay at this address while 1st bit is clear in Port A (wait a full cycle )
0408:  D3AB		180808		INY					increase Y
0409:  D3AD		01		NOP					delay
0410:  D3AE		01		NOP					delay ( I think this is done to not have an overflow in Y and to debounce the cycle switch)	
0411:  D3AF		1E0002F8	BRSET	$00,X,%00000010,$D3AB		jump back if the cycle has not changed to increase y
0412:  D3B3		180808		INY					increase Y
0413:  D3B5		01		NOP					delay
0414:  D3B6		01		NOP					delay ( I think this is done to not have an overflow in Y and to debounce the cycle switch)
0415:  D3B7		1F0002F8	BRCLR	$00,X,%00000010,$D3B3		Jump to increase Y as long as cyckle hasn't changed
0416:  D3BB		188C09238C	CPY	#$0923				At this point Y contains a relattive value of the duration for one cycle period its compared to #$0923
0417:  D3BF		2201		BHI	$D3C2				Branch if Y > $D3C2 i.e jump if less then 60Hz
0418:  D3C1		39		RTS	

0419:  D3C2		0F		SEI					enble interrupt
0420:  D3C3		8655		LDAA	#$55
0421:  D3C5		A73A		STAA	$3A,X				Arm the COP timer clearing mechanism
0422:  D3C7		86AA		LDAA	#$AA
0423:  D3C9		A73A		STAA	$3A,X				Clear the COP timer
0424:  D3CB		20F5		BRA	$D3C2				Branch always to D3C2 loop here infitely or a bugg occurs that enebles the COP reset.
 
Hi
thanks you for your help.


I take a picture but my APN is bad.

PIC 0192: Powerplug black is Line and white is Neu.(neutre)
http://img433.imageshack.us/img433/3985/10001923pw.jpg

0194: left is switch2 in postion: UP(no label) or down(postion 1).

rigth is switch 1(clip1 in position 1 and clip2 is position2)You have a choice :for clip1 postion 1 or postion OPEN.
And for clip2 ,position 2 or OPEN.

Switch 1:

clip1 clip2
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- * - * -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
- - -
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OPEN


http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/5189/10001947mn.jpg




PIC 196:Transofrmer to switch card. LEFT to right is: Black,White,Big Black,brown,orange,Big Grey,Black,Withe.
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/108/10001962nq.jpg


PCI:198: Transformer to amplifier card channel left.Up to Down is :Grey,blue,yellow,red
Channel right Up to Down :red,yellow,blue,Grey.
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/440/10001986xe.jpg



ouch.:dead:
 
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