Zx 350

thedeal7235 · Post by **thedeal7235** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:43 am

ok, so here are pics of my zx350 cap relacement from today-ill power it up tomorrow, cant finish the zx450 till wed. or thurs. b/c waiting transistors coming in( oh yeah that 1 pic is my wife, it drives me crazy 2 de-solder the square posi terminals on underneath of board, so she hoped in 2 give me a break

-this was a great trial run for completing the zx450- i may use hot glue instead of clear caulk to hold caps in place-
wifey givin me a break!!!

zx350 built in 95, first cap replacement, they were leakn BAD!!

cleaned up board

new caps in place

thermal grease

completed

deathcloud · Post by **deathcloud** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:47 am

wow that looks clean! I need to learn how to do this kind of stuff. Give me a couple years and ill try to do this

thedeal7235 · Post by **thedeal7235** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:54 am

I never thought i could, im not out of the woods yet, gotta power it up 2morrow and well c-??????????????????????????????going 2 bed tired, its almost 4 here, and barley 1 4 u-later-Christian

gkitching · Post by **gkitching** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:39 am

Nice! I wish I could get my wife to help me. She likes to 'play' stupid about anything electronic so i don't ask. And of coarse anything that needs fixed becomes my job. So I play stupid when it comes to laundry

paulmichelsen · Post by **paulmichelsen** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:45 am

Wow the wife helping and from the looks of it on the kitchen table even! Anytime I bring things like that home I get the question, "Isn't your shop for stuff like this?"

For those of you that haven't done things like this it's not as bad as you may think. I have yet to work on an amp but in my other hobby (arcade games) there is a lot of work like this when repairing monitors or game boards. Once you get over the initial fear of screwing something up it's pretty cake.

Keep up the good work!

thedeal7235 · Post by **thedeal7235** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 5:57 am

hahahhahahaha 2 greg(about the laundry), and thanx guys , well see if she powers back up this pm( the amp, that is)

thedeal7235 · Post by **thedeal7235** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 6:38 pm

it lives! as u can see it FIRED up NO PROBLEMO- and i cant even begin to tell all of you THANK YOU for your input, suggestions, and knowledge; to me this series sounds even cleaner then the Ti series, but thats just mho-

its currently running my tweets active(via the mx3i) at 3.??khz-when mytransistors arrive tomorrow, and i getthem in the 450, i may very well take both my ti500.4/ti600.2 out and keep my zx series for highs/mids-the only upgrade to this zx350 was adding 4700Uf caps/clean up board, heat sinks etc.