AC3750L
Novice Member
Hi All,
I am new to this forum, i have been joining forums left right and centre to try and find someone who can help me with my Akai
I was given one of these when i was 4 years old, i was amazed by it, I had it in pieces all the time looking how it worked and watching the insides when i turned the radio dial wondering how it was changing station, watching the record mechanism work, absolutely fascinated by it, unfortunately it was destroyed in a bad flood we had when i was 10 years old
A year or so i bought another one, luckily as they are extremely rare now, it was listed as working, other than the tape and record belts, which i have replaced.
Unfortunately i was using 1 set of speakers for 2 hifi's, one set of leads from the akai to the mordaunt short speakers, then one set from there to the cambridge azure.
I powered the akai on, not realising that id left the cambridge one on too, the cambridge audio one went into protect mode instantly, and the akai blew the 5a internal fuses, I remember from being a child and messing with it so much, that im SURE it used to blow the 1a glass fuses inside when i connected the speakers up wrong, or shorted the wires out or something, but now its just blowing the 5a glass fuses inside without anything connected, if i plug a speaker into it with new fuses, it buzzes for a second through the speaker and blows the fuses...
Please can someone help me with this? I am desperate to get it working again, i love this hifi, its just so nice and brings back good memories
I have made videos, and taken multiple pictures if that helps anyone, someone on another forum said it could be a transistor or something? I am capable of re capping a board, as i have done many times in TV's and washing machines and stuff, so this should be a problem to me whatsoever if i can just start somewhere in diagnosing the problem
Thanks all - Joe
I am new to this forum, i have been joining forums left right and centre to try and find someone who can help me with my Akai
I was given one of these when i was 4 years old, i was amazed by it, I had it in pieces all the time looking how it worked and watching the insides when i turned the radio dial wondering how it was changing station, watching the record mechanism work, absolutely fascinated by it, unfortunately it was destroyed in a bad flood we had when i was 10 years old
A year or so i bought another one, luckily as they are extremely rare now, it was listed as working, other than the tape and record belts, which i have replaced.
Unfortunately i was using 1 set of speakers for 2 hifi's, one set of leads from the akai to the mordaunt short speakers, then one set from there to the cambridge azure.
I powered the akai on, not realising that id left the cambridge one on too, the cambridge audio one went into protect mode instantly, and the akai blew the 5a internal fuses, I remember from being a child and messing with it so much, that im SURE it used to blow the 1a glass fuses inside when i connected the speakers up wrong, or shorted the wires out or something, but now its just blowing the 5a glass fuses inside without anything connected, if i plug a speaker into it with new fuses, it buzzes for a second through the speaker and blows the fuses...
Please can someone help me with this? I am desperate to get it working again, i love this hifi, its just so nice and brings back good memories
I have made videos, and taken multiple pictures if that helps anyone, someone on another forum said it could be a transistor or something? I am capable of re capping a board, as i have done many times in TV's and washing machines and stuff, so this should be a problem to me whatsoever if i can just start somewhere in diagnosing the problem
Thanks all - Joe