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Last night, while surfing the net in search for a source for the transistors used in the 78-80 TCI boxes, I stumbled upon a forum that caters to audiophiles, particularly those that repair their own and other's equipment. (Must be a forum for every conceivable interest. Ya gotta love the Internet!)
One of the members, in reply to someone asking for a source for the C 458 transistors that I was looking for, and for another few requests from others on that board, put forth the information that those transistors were a product of Hitachi, and were used in a variety of Jap consumer product back then. His experience, along with a number of others on the board, was that after a number of years, they would sporadically fail, and when he encountered them in his repair work, he would replace them all as a preventative measure.
Anyway, I would now like to ask, beseech, entreat, even BEG you, if you have a TCI that is dead, and you have tried the Davinci fix, espoused by Randy, of re soldering the output pins, without restoring it to life, PLEASE, do not throw it away. It may be fixable.
PM me, and lets see if there is some way to keep it from going to the dump. There are only so many in existence, and if it is true that the transistors fail, but can be replaced, we can save the remaining ones and keep the sparks in our love affairs for years to come.
To quote a couple of my hero's, Bartells and James, "Thank you for your support".
CZ
Last night, while surfing the net in search for a source for the transistors used in the 78-80 TCI boxes, I stumbled upon a forum that caters to audiophiles, particularly those that repair their own and other's equipment. (Must be a forum for every conceivable interest. Ya gotta love the Internet!)
One of the members, in reply to someone asking for a source for the C 458 transistors that I was looking for, and for another few requests from others on that board, put forth the information that those transistors were a product of Hitachi, and were used in a variety of Jap consumer product back then. His experience, along with a number of others on the board, was that after a number of years, they would sporadically fail, and when he encountered them in his repair work, he would replace them all as a preventative measure.
Anyway, I would now like to ask, beseech, entreat, even BEG you, if you have a TCI that is dead, and you have tried the Davinci fix, espoused by Randy, of re soldering the output pins, without restoring it to life, PLEASE, do not throw it away. It may be fixable.
PM me, and lets see if there is some way to keep it from going to the dump. There are only so many in existence, and if it is true that the transistors fail, but can be replaced, we can save the remaining ones and keep the sparks in our love affairs for years to come.
To quote a couple of my hero's, Bartells and James, "Thank you for your support".
CZ
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