Hifonics Brutus 1500 hip 4080 issue

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0.06 is not good. Check on resistance. They should both go towards the mega-ohm range.
 

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Perry,I feel like a total dumbass now.You just nailed the problem(really appreciate it)
The original cap was a 153h100.I had a 104j100 in that spot.I just swapped what I'm assuming is channel a from channel b and the resistor heat transferred to the other 10R resistor.I did order the right ones but don't have them yet.Can you explain why a fraction of a NF made such a chance?
I've over the years on various things used higher UF caps with no problems.I do refrigeration and change caps all the time without problems.Of coarse this is commercial related and not electronics based.If its to much to ask I can try to read about it on the net.
Thanks again
 
The increased capacitance allowed more of the carrier waveform to pass through the capacitor and resistor. It's like increasing the value of the capacitor for a high-pass crossover for a tweeter. The increased capacitance would allow the tweeter to receive more power and possibly blow it.
 
Sorry but I have a couple more questions..sorry
What's the potentiometer for (vr12) I believe I may have have came a crossed it in the tutorial.A lot of stuff to try to remember.
Also, this thing draws about 1.5 amps.Also from rca ground to speaker ground is 32 +vdc?
And 166K from rca ground shield to amp ground lug? Perhaps another issue or something I don't understand?
 
I'm so sorry for all the questions.Think there still may be a problem.The original burnt resistor still gets fairly hot.Just take a minute longer now.The other 10R stays room temp.
There's some static on the output with a speaker connected.The output is ever so slightly distorted.
Here's some pics of the low/high side outputs from the channel with burnt resistor.Actually both channels look the same.No input signal on these photos.
 
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