MTBMAN
Novice Member
Hello everyone,
I'm new to the forum and find this site very interesting, I can probably lose hours and hours here!
Last night my much loved Musical Fidelity A3 Dual Mono Integrated amp went up in smoke & filled the room with the glorious smell of what reminds me of toy caps as a kid then blew the ring main .
This morning I took off the lid to see what caused the problem & it looks like the mains capacitor (linked between the live & neutral directly behind where the power cable is plugged in) has failed/melted & caused a straight short between the live & neutral.
My problem is because the capacitor has melted I can't read it to get another. The info I can read are as follows: RIFA
P** 271 M
4***00/56/B
250 VAC
On the back, as follows:
275 v~
Unfortunately, all other info has melted away. Can anyone help identify this? Soldering another one on looks an easy job but unless I can identify the part I'm too worried about the damage that could be caused.
Many thanks.
I'm new to the forum and find this site very interesting, I can probably lose hours and hours here!
Last night my much loved Musical Fidelity A3 Dual Mono Integrated amp went up in smoke & filled the room with the glorious smell of what reminds me of toy caps as a kid then blew the ring main .
This morning I took off the lid to see what caused the problem & it looks like the mains capacitor (linked between the live & neutral directly behind where the power cable is plugged in) has failed/melted & caused a straight short between the live & neutral.
My problem is because the capacitor has melted I can't read it to get another. The info I can read are as follows: RIFA
P** 271 M
4***00/56/B
250 VAC
On the back, as follows:
275 v~
Unfortunately, all other info has melted away. Can anyone help identify this? Soldering another one on looks an easy job but unless I can identify the part I'm too worried about the damage that could be caused.
Many thanks.