clear and blue
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Hi,
Just bought a 540R v2 from eBay on the basis of the favourable reviews it gets sound quality wise. Paid slightly over the odds but it is still fairly new and they are getting increasingly hard to find.
The thing is, having had it delivered this morning I have spent all day trying to get it to work. It keeps shutting down after saying "overload protect". Now I have already done a search on this and every thread seemed to end unanswered. For the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong. .
I have checked all of the inputs and speaker connections (even though I was so careful connecting it all up to start with. I can't see how anything can be shorting, short of a short inside the (short) chassis. It isn't overheating and has plenty of ventilation.
The speakers I tested with are 8 Ohm Kef Cresta 3 floorstanders. I even turned off all unused speaker connections via the OSD before playing anything as if it had output transformers that could blow (shouldn't be a problem with a solid state amplifier).
In the few years since the last "overheating" thread, has anyone figured out what is causing this? Or is this why you can no longer buy these amps from Richer Sounds - almost every one of them has been returned as faulty?
Please, if anyone can think of something I may be doing wrong, let me know.
Cheers
Just bought a 540R v2 from eBay on the basis of the favourable reviews it gets sound quality wise. Paid slightly over the odds but it is still fairly new and they are getting increasingly hard to find.
The thing is, having had it delivered this morning I have spent all day trying to get it to work. It keeps shutting down after saying "overload protect". Now I have already done a search on this and every thread seemed to end unanswered. For the life of me I can't figure out what is wrong. .
I have checked all of the inputs and speaker connections (even though I was so careful connecting it all up to start with. I can't see how anything can be shorting, short of a short inside the (short) chassis. It isn't overheating and has plenty of ventilation.
The speakers I tested with are 8 Ohm Kef Cresta 3 floorstanders. I even turned off all unused speaker connections via the OSD before playing anything as if it had output transformers that could blow (shouldn't be a problem with a solid state amplifier).
In the few years since the last "overheating" thread, has anyone figured out what is causing this? Or is this why you can no longer buy these amps from Richer Sounds - almost every one of them has been returned as faulty?
Please, if anyone can think of something I may be doing wrong, let me know.
Cheers
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