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Crown CDi1000 shorted slightly open? possible?

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Topic: Crown CDi1000 shorted slightly open? possible?

Posted By: Kyle123
Subject: Crown CDi1000 shorted slightly open? possible?
Date Posted: 24 January 2023 at 3:02pm

Hello everyone,

I have a crown cdi 1000 and when the level knobs are all the way down there, the left chanel still plays. All the information I can find suggests that these usually fail the other way, i.e. no sound.

Thanks,

Kyle

Also, the amp operates normally when both levels are set to 1/3 or higher.

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Posted By: imageoven
Date Posted: 24 January 2023 at 8:50pm

You don't ask a question there, but assuming you are wondering what could have gone wrong, a faulty volume potentiometer seems plausible.

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Posted By: Kyle123
Date Posted: 24 January 2023 at 9:10pm

Ahh yes,

I am wondering what the problem is? Or if anyone has heard of this happening before!

I don't think it's the volume knob because it reacts the same using the internal volume/mute functions via the PC software.

I can replace the transistors, but I don't really want to do that and find out after that it's something different.

Posted By: fat_brstd
Date Posted: 24 January 2023 at 10:16pm

I've seen this happen on a few occasions with all sorts of amps, mainly in very dusty environments where the pot fails to close properly. Best to swap the pot out as most of them are simple 10K and its a 10 min job.

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Posted By: Kyle123
Date Posted: 24 January 2023 at 10:51pm

Thanks,

I'm fairly certain it's not the pots as I have the ability within the amp to mute each channel internally. With the pots at at 50% I can mute each channel, one channel goes dead quiet and the other goes to low volume.

I can probably check the resistance across it though compared to the other pretty easily though.