After many years of being the owner of a broken Tate due to the burn out of unobtanium chips, which has been lost to repair purgatory forever, I am once again the owner of a working Tate.
I awoke Monday morning with an email alert in my inbox from eBay that there was a new match to my saved search for fosgate tate. I wonder how many others here have that same search saved and awoke to a similar email.
It's a silver face model, listed as for parts or repair, but then further described as coming from an estate sale, tested as powering on, but being unable to do further testing due to not knowing anything about it.
Basically - a game of chance on the eBay casino. Which I usually come out the loser. But....sometimes I just can't help myself.
Threw a $400 offer at it, figuring that would be a bargain if it turns out to work.
Well - it just arrived, and after fighting with the mess of wires behind my receiver for a bit, I've confirmed it is indeed decoding SQ.
The levels are a bit funky when adjusting the output balance knob, so it will need some cleaning.
But - given the risk of the burn out of irreplaceable chips, I'm wondering what the current recommended practice is for restoring one of these to have the best chance of preventing a chip burn out issue. My thought is perhaps recapping the power supply portion, and leaving the audio path alone for now. Although I'll need to dig up a schematic or service manual for the unit - does anyone have digitized documents of this?
I awoke Monday morning with an email alert in my inbox from eBay that there was a new match to my saved search for fosgate tate. I wonder how many others here have that same search saved and awoke to a similar email.
It's a silver face model, listed as for parts or repair, but then further described as coming from an estate sale, tested as powering on, but being unable to do further testing due to not knowing anything about it.
Basically - a game of chance on the eBay casino. Which I usually come out the loser. But....sometimes I just can't help myself.
Threw a $400 offer at it, figuring that would be a bargain if it turns out to work.
Well - it just arrived, and after fighting with the mess of wires behind my receiver for a bit, I've confirmed it is indeed decoding SQ.
The levels are a bit funky when adjusting the output balance knob, so it will need some cleaning.
But - given the risk of the burn out of irreplaceable chips, I'm wondering what the current recommended practice is for restoring one of these to have the best chance of preventing a chip burn out issue. My thought is perhaps recapping the power supply portion, and leaving the audio path alone for now. Although I'll need to dig up a schematic or service manual for the unit - does anyone have digitized documents of this?
