Quad 57 trouble shooting

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I've owned a pair of 57's for about 30 years, and had them rebuilt about 5 years ago by Wayne Piquet. A long term love affair. But recently one of them sounded muffled, and when I checked, the power supply light was out. Pulling the plug made no difference, so indeed it's not getting powered up. Frankly I was surprised it played at all. Any ideas before I start taking things apart?
 
The 57 uses a remarkably simple circuit without much of the safety frou-frou of more more 'modern' stuff, so they're simple to debug and work on.

OTOH, they'll also electrocute your pets or burn down your house with a rather casual British indifference to the consequences...

If the neon glow lamp is out, there's no AC voltage reaching it - start at the wall socket, confirm AC, then check the supply cord for continuity (the silly 3-prong round 'Bulgin' connectors can fail at either female or male ends...), and finally check across the 57's power supply input pins - there should be 8-12 Ohms resistance.

Open (or infinite) resistance implies either a bad internal connection or an open primary in the transformer - here's a link to a schematic for the older 57's:

http://tinyurl.com/osydmuo

And one to the a pretty complete document on rejuvenating the beasts.

http://www.quadesl.com/pdf/quad_book.pdf

Cheers & good luck

Jim
 
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Thanks Jim. For reasons not clear to me, reversing polarity, i.e. flipping the wall plug 180 degrees, cured the problem. Perhaps that means the cord is going intermittent somewhere and I just jostled it back into contact. For now, I'm happy again.
 
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