wakestrap

Bah, a CLA isnt worth the time. I'm just gonna make a new amp board and if it works I'll post a solution for those that are so inclined. It should be fairly straight forward I've just been crazy busy with everything else here at work. I'll have the results by next week. Feel free to email me at wakestrap@gmail.com if you wanna know what exactly I'm up doing.

After further examination of the internals I've discovered the problem lies with the amplifier. Its toast. The board labeled iGroove Amplifier Board has a large heatsink on it. Under that heatsink is the Amplifier chip. I could order a new chip but its doesn't seem to be worth the hassle of removing the old one (the surface mount leads are really close it'd be a witch to replace). I don't know if Klipsch will sell replacement Amp boards but its worth a try. Replacing the entire boards is a breeze the question is how much for the board?

From my understanding this is a known issue with the igroove unit as a I've seen a number of posts from people asking about a fix. My igroove is also out of the warranty period so I decided to take it apart and see what I could find out. After a full tear down and rebuild (including reseating all connections and having a good look at both control boards) I was unable to locate the problem. I did however, notice that at all the points I checked on the boards as well as the speaker connections themselves, there was a consistent voltage of about 50 volts running through everything. This seemed strange to me although not having any reference values to work with I don't know if that's normal or not. I'm going to try and call the tech line today and see if anyone there can help. Would it be possible to get some benchmark values and test points so I could properly analyze the system?