need help reparing ammoon looper sudden death [SOLVED]
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Hello
I lent out an ammoon stereo looper (vague clone of the ehx 720) and it came back dead. I plug it in with the power supply in my studio and nothing happens, no leds light, no sign of life. I measure 9v at the power jack, and get similar voltages around the diodes and components in the attached photo. The schottky D2 seems ok : I get 9.12v on one side and 8.76v on the other, a 220R resistance one way and infinite/open the other.
diode D4 next to it reads 10 ohms resistance both ways. Is something wrong here?
Connectivity is intact across FU1, it seems to be a resettable fuse.
I did not lend it out with the power supply. The person who borrowed it is a musician familiar with pedals and told me it didn't work when he plugged it in with his 9v supply.
Any ideas where I could look or should I just presume it's dead and move on?
I lent out an ammoon stereo looper (vague clone of the ehx 720) and it came back dead. I plug it in with the power supply in my studio and nothing happens, no leds light, no sign of life. I measure 9v at the power jack, and get similar voltages around the diodes and components in the attached photo. The schottky D2 seems ok : I get 9.12v on one side and 8.76v on the other, a 220R resistance one way and infinite/open the other.
diode D4 next to it reads 10 ohms resistance both ways. Is something wrong here?
Connectivity is intact across FU1, it seems to be a resettable fuse.
I did not lend it out with the power supply. The person who borrowed it is a musician familiar with pedals and told me it didn't work when he plugged it in with his 9v supply.
Any ideas where I could look or should I just presume it's dead and move on?
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- phatt
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No, it's a fair bet it's just a silicon diode used for reversed polarity protection.
D4 most likely blew because some one used a reversed plug supply. opps
D4 most likely blew because some one used a reversed plug supply. opps
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Hi airfrankenstein, thanks for this post. I had exactly the same problem one day my looper simply wouldn't power on so I opened it up but couldn't see anything obviously wrong (i did notice that Ammoon use red for ground and black for 9V !) so i googled the schematic and came across your post, checked the resistance of D4, 4.5v in either direction, de-soldered it, got creative with the legs on a 1N914 which I managed to solder in place, plugged in a power supply and hey presto the thing lit up like a Christmas tree; power restored.
Thanks mate if I hadn't come across your post i'd have stripped it for parts.
Thanks mate if I hadn't come across your post i'd have stripped it for parts.