I've got a Pioneer SA-8800, cosmetically beautiful but dead in the water; blows the input fuse on the back as soon as it's switched on. The man I bought it from says when he last used it a couple of years before I bought it, it had an intermittent drop-out on one channel but was basically working. I'm perfectly happy with the deal; trying to make something that works but looks rough into something that looks good is almost impossible, but I'm not an electronics guy so once I get beyond the blindingly obvious, I'm lost. I'm good with fine instruments, but strictly mechanical stuff...........
Is there anyone here who would repair it? I've been told on another forum that the likely culprits could be output transistors or a bridging resistor. If it's any help, in the fraction of a second before the fuse blows there's sometimes a faint flicker from the flouroscan display, and the capacitors charge up.
Money doesn't have to change hands (but it could). I've a very nice Hacker Centurian record player with speakers available for barter. It needs a stylus but I've checked it on its tuner input and it works fine.:eyebrows:
