Puntoboy
Prominent Member
I bought a set of Wharfedale DX-2 speakers and a subwoofer back in 2018 and they have been great, but at some point in the last few months the subwoofer has stopped working, it's not often I've been in the lounge and even then I've not really watched much that needed a subwoofer. My wife wanted to paint the wall where the TV etc. is mounted so I had to take it all down and move it out of the way. When I came to unplug the subwoofer I noticed it wasn't even plugged in, which was odd, but thought no more about it.
Moving everything back and connecting it up again and the subwoofer wouldn't power up. I checked the power cable with a multimeter (as it's an IEC C13 with only 2 pins, I can't replace it easily). It shows 240v so that's good. The subwoofer has a automatic sense option which turns the subwoofer off when no signal is detected so I turned that off, still nothing. I checked the little glass fuse in the subwoofer with a multimeter (again, no replacement) and it was showing continuity, so that seems OK as well. I popped the back off the subwoofer to see if there was anything obviously wrong with the amp but couldn't see any popped capacitors or anything, so I'm stumped.
Any ideas? Seems a real shame to throw it away.
Moving everything back and connecting it up again and the subwoofer wouldn't power up. I checked the power cable with a multimeter (as it's an IEC C13 with only 2 pins, I can't replace it easily). It shows 240v so that's good. The subwoofer has a automatic sense option which turns the subwoofer off when no signal is detected so I turned that off, still nothing. I checked the little glass fuse in the subwoofer with a multimeter (again, no replacement) and it was showing continuity, so that seems OK as well. I popped the back off the subwoofer to see if there was anything obviously wrong with the amp but couldn't see any popped capacitors or anything, so I'm stumped.
Any ideas? Seems a real shame to throw it away.