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Anybody by any remote chance have a schematic copy for a C - Audio RA 1001
slave amp ? Drawn a blank from all the usual places.

Looks as though it has been stored somewhere cold and damp, although dry
enough now. Basically, it won't come out of 'protect' although there seems
to be nothing wrong fundamentally with either channel. Both channels have
good output, with no DC offset, as far as the output relays. There is
another relay over at the mains input side of things that looks like it
shorts a bloody great resistor, so inrush limiting I guess. All three

relays
remain stubbornly off, and the protect light stays on. I can't read any
volts at any of the three relay coils, and none of the pins appears to be
grounded, so they are not high-side switched. So may be something as

simple
as a missing rail, but hard to follow print around as it's double sided,

and
fairly crowded ...

Arfa


If the C is for Crest then sounds like my experience of a pile of
Crest Audio Pulse 2 1100 , amps stored in a Dutch barn
schema available out there
repair briefs on
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/repair2a.htm
IIRC all the problems were condensation/corossion inside minor TO92
owner thought draping a tarpaulin over them in the barn was sufficient
protection in the UK