Phoenix Gold Phorum

I've got a ms2125, that's like new.
I've had 9 of those, but this one is the only one, with a long, narrow section cut out of the front end piece [pic]. it's the black section on the photo.
who knows what it's for? [cooling, put, fan-wires tru, or what?].
solve this mistery for me please!
nico.

I have no idea what it is, but WOWWWW that is so mint

that is very interesting.....

it wouldn't make much sense for cooling unless there is one on the other side.....how interesting.
i got nothing

it was for the
knight ryder led kit that was available at the time
you could also get the battle star galactica zylon "eyes"







no im just kidding. but actually i never seen that before myself.

damn thats so sexy

Is the small centre hole normal?

So the"slot" was punched out of the end plate at the factory?
Paint is undisturbed all around?

Perhaps an option to "lock" a pair of 2125's back to back with a special adapter/fitting of some sort??

Got me.

HH

the small hole is for bolting the metal bottom cover on, when using a plexi bottom this is not needed..

as for locking them together, i can't see why you would want to do it that way, just remove the end plates and butt them together like i've done.

i dont think your looking at the pic well^^^^^^^^^^^^^

there is a groove n the endplate.
look again.

OK; first of all; it is 100% original phoenix gold.
why? I purchased the new end plates at phoenix gold from Phil Koehn.
I was surprised to get this strange variation of the end plate, but didn't think much about it.
later I thought, I'd throw it on the forum, you guys have together seen so much of phoenix gold, one of you should know....
so now, I'll contact Phil, to see what he knows about it.
maybe i've got a prototype- endplate?...
I'll let you guys know ,when this mystery is solved.
thanks for all your brainstorming so far.
nico.

to be honest, that makes more sense nico. the endplates were probably something custom built for a specific customer that for some reason never left the factory. then Phil found a pair of end-caps and probably didn't even realize they were at all different from the norm.

brenzbmr@sb wrote:i dont think your looking at the pic well^^^^^^^^^^^^^

there is a groove n the endplate.
look again.

can't miss the slot, someone asked about the hole so i explained what the hole was for.

marko wrote:

brenzbmr@sb wrote:i dont think your looking at the pic well^^^^^^^^^^^^^

there is a groove n the endplate.
look again.

can't miss the slot, someone asked about the hole so i explained what the hole was for.

oh i guess i misunderstood you, could you ever forgive me?

if you wanna read a twist in the wizard of oz story
read a book called
"Wicked" its written to explain the history of the witch.

brenzbmr@sb wrote:

marko wrote:

brenzbmr@sb wrote:i dont think your looking at the pic well^^^^^^^^^^^^^

there is a groove n the endplate.
look again.

can't miss the slot, someone asked about the hole so i explained what the hole was for.

oh i guess i misunderstood you, could you ever forgive me?

if you wanna read a twist in the wizard of oz story
read a book called
"Wicked" its written to explain the history of the witch.

no worries mate, you would have to be a blind crazy fool to miss that slot!! maybe it was for a custom multiplayer slot to go with the TI1 headunit

Thanks guys, for your reply's.
When I asked Phil about it, I'll let you know.
It's not gonna be the only weird amp in my collection, I'm drawing a sensational design for six ms2125's, that I want to build next year, using a custom-build heat sink, that will house them all-in-one, with a temp.-sensing system, that will keep them at a constant temperature [liquid cooled vari-pump system].
a friend of mine is an airco-engineer, and is bench-testing one of them, to see how temp. rises, related to current flow at different settings.
It's gonna be someting unseen by now, expressing my enthousiasm for these amps. if all's going to plan, I'll have six mint ms2125 heat sinks for sale or give away for you guys.
but first the dream has to come off the drawing-table, and the program has to be made to feed into the cnc-machine.
going to be next year I'm afraid, gives me time to think about a name for it.
first pics will come when the cnc machine is doing his thing, by then, I'll be selling the other ms2125's for raising funds.

sounds like an intersting project! i'd deffo be interested in some spare heatsinks or any other spare parts for these fine amps!

can't wait to see pics of this one off heatsink!

mark.

sounds like a major job, you must keep us posted on this.

When the sleepless nights are over, and the cnc-machine is eating it's way trough that BIG block of aluminium, pics will show up. promised.
nico

did you ever find any thing out on the end plate?????


hows the amp coming along????



yes I'm board and just started looking back in time

I remember seeing those end plates in the Service Dept stock pile but don't know the history behind them. Probably R&D samples.

So what's good I'm Brett, I'm new to the forum & PG but def not to car audio. Got in a rut so I got some new stuff to spark my imagination. I just bought an ms2125, didn't get it yet but have done some research on here and I realize how important changing the input caps is, at least those. I wanted to know how you can tell if the're original equip or not. Or is the smart thing is to not even take the chance and change them and enjoy. If so what's the cost of changing the rail caps sill pads and input caps? I'm Mech inclined but never done this job, what kind of time are we talking about. Do I need to wear a grounding wrist strap and work on a map, or what? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi, and welcome to this forum.
I'm sure that if you used the search function , you already found a lot of info about the matter.
And yes; take NO CHANCE and CHANGE THE CAPS [also railcaps]; you don't want to be removing the board twice for replacing them afterwards, believe me.
No wrist-strap required, but you def. need to read as much info as you can find.
Like with all things you do for the first time, you don't want to be dissapointed afterwards....
Start with this;
http://phoenixphorum.com/leaking-capaci ... p+tutorial
That will give you a good start.
Good luck.
Nico

Shawn; the "MS2125 death-star project" stopped abruptly when the cnc-cutting machine was not available anymore for my friend to help me with it.
I sold the aluminium block that it had to be fraised out [was quite expensive].
Afterwards I had some more ideas, but at the moment it's hard enough, due to time and technical stuff to finish a [secret] project for one of our trusted members.
Finishing it is my main goal at the moment, after that the grey MS1K , and then....who knows.
The special endplate has gone to someone who is just as fond of rare pieces of the MS series as I am; I build a special edition with it, so it's no longer in my collection.

Don't forget this tutorial as well, with the MS specific disassembly instructions:
http://phoenixphorum.com/ms-capacitor-r ... t9930.html

Thanks Tom...... ....that was great work there!!
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