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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112507 10/10/05 01:28 PM
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Any chance you had excess slack in your speaker wires at the terminals? Stray strands, anything like that? If they had an opportunity to touch each other that might make your amp go up in smoke, but I'd imagine that would be more likely to happen if you were driving some sort of load at the time.


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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112508 10/10/05 01:42 PM
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In reply to:

also I'm surprised no one's noticed that it's quite possible that this thread had one of the all-time funniest subject lines ever.


Been laughing about it since it appeared. Fortunately, there is an apostrope present which removes any possibility of medical attention being required.


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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112509 10/10/05 03:12 PM
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"Any chance you had excess slack in your speaker wires at the terminals?"

Not a chance; I'm a EE! EEs don't make mistakes or overlook anything. Wait..EEs designed the C370. Ah, I don't think I had any stray strands shorting things.:-)

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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112510 10/10/05 07:14 PM
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Mister, you're a few stray strands short of a short.

Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112511 10/11/05 02:50 AM
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jack-yeah i know, but we're not grammer and spelling Knotzis around here.


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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112512 10/11/05 03:37 AM
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Actually, he's got it in the right place. "My NADs exploded!" would indicate that he had multiple NAD units which exploded. His "My NAD's exploded!" translates to "My NAD has exploded!"

See this cartoon as well, for a less family friendly option.


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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112513 10/11/05 04:37 AM
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I try to be precise with my grammar.:-)

Like many guys here I have two NADs. I dearly love both of them and on a very visceral level I strive to keep both of them safe, knowing I will feel great pain if either comes to harm.

Despite that, one NAD, the one I call C370, has exploded. My other NAD, affectionately named T742, still functions but it's just not the same. I miss having a full set.

I would be grateful if anyone knows where I can get a C370 schematic. It seems the exploded 10,000uF/80VDC cap of the pair had 87VDC on it while the other pair shows 28VDC. Otherwise I have to draw the schematic by tracing the circuit out, then analyze schematic why that is happening. I would have expected symmetrical +/- supply voltages.

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#112514 10/11/05 08:09 AM
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I can pop open the hood on mine and check out some values for you. I Can just send you a pic and you can highlight what you want values on and i'll take a look in mine this weekend. Let me know. But then again im only An electonics tech not an EE so if it were me id just throw a new cap in there and call her good if i was getting acceptable readings.

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Re: My NAD's exploded!
#112515 10/12/05 03:34 AM
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"Like many guys here I have two NADs. I dearly love both of them and on a very visceral level I strive to keep both of them safe, knowing I will feel great pain if either comes to harm.

Despite that, one NAD, the one I call C370, has exploded. My other NAD, affectionately named T742, still functions but it's just not the same. I miss having a full set. "









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#112516 10/12/05 03:43 AM
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i was gonna use it as a punch-line too.. but, you did a much better job than i could have!!

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