Phoenix Gold Phorum

I just got a ZX250 and a ZX350 (both white and pretty damn clean too ) the only thing is the 350 looks like the caps have blown!?( which the seller DID tell me) I haven't had time to open her up to check the board or anything but through the window the board looks okay, just some black under the caps. Is this common for the ZX line? I thought it was just the older M's that needed new caps? Anyway, I've been reading the how to and I think I can replace them myself, but not very confident in doin so. I will get some pics up after work today and see what everyone thinks. I would rather not ship them off to be repaired as I'm on a tight budget and got both of these for $175, which I thought was a steal. Again, pics will be up either later today or early tomorro. I'm super excited to have my first pair of PG amps and would love to have them working ASAP.

don't hook ANY power to it...

as stated above, dont power them up until you change the caps. Iirc the cap sitch was finally rectified after the zx and zp series came out, great amps and killer deal

I definetly will not power it up. I'm super busy today and likely won't get any pics up, but soon enough. I just wanted to get some of the PP members eyes on it and maybe get a better idea how bad it is/ isn't. Also, anything to note about changing these caps that I won't find in the How To? Thanks all. Oh, one more thing, how much power can these things actually produce? I will be using a PLD1, the zx250 on 6'' rsd comps (which I think matches up perfect), and the zx350 bridged to an rsd12. Just curious I guess. I'm happy with rated power but like I say, kinda curious.

Still no pics. Been way too busy. I will get pics up when I have time to open the amp I'm just too busy.

You can see the bottom right cap, ( I believe) has blown on the other side of the board but not too bad. I just forgot to get a pic when the board was out

Also, if anyone has some replacement caps for both of these amps I would take them off ur hands. Name the price. Upgrades (if there is such a thing) would be even better. Thanks

Digikey has replacement caps. There should be a "how to" on the cap replacement on here somewhere...

The large caps are okay, they do not need changed.

As you can see the power caps are leaking badly.

I will check out digikey, thank you. I have read the how to (more than once) Thank you again. I thought the bigger caps (rail???) were swelled but if that's the way they are then, thank you one more time
I did get hold of a friend of mine that has worked on lots of amps/electronics (incl. some ZX's back in the day) and he will be doin the work for me, so that makes me happy