K4010

Hello, excuse my english cause I am french

I have bought one k4010 in a store with no problem since the first connecting-up on April 2005 (very happy).

Then I have bought another k4010 by internet on july 2007 and I had several problems :

  1. I had invert D9 and RY1 did not commute. After a good position of D9 it was ok.

  2. one of the electrolytic capacitor 470µF 25V was squash up during the travel and I replace it by a equivalent in position C34. Maybe I’d better put it in C33 cause it’s bigger size than the original and I had difficulty to insert the holder F1 in depth. So absolute value of -V3 is a little higher than +V3.

3)JR (connector audio in cinch female) was in short-circuit due to the manufacturing of the pcb (short-circuit between tracks audio in/gnd near JR). I resolved that by parting with a cutter, then I could listen the music.

The voltage across R78 to R81 is about 35mV.

But the last problem I have today is that the second amplifier k4010 I have bought has more background noise than the first.

in normal use (preamp connected and mute) the noise is about 3 times more audible than the right channel with sizzling.

When I make a short-circuit to the amplifier input using a short circuited cinch plug, the noise persist, but a little lower.

When I unplug the amplifier input, the noise becomes outsize.

(Note : on the both amplifiers, I add C41 and C42 10000µF 63V for a better bass sound. I put them together in a metal box with ventilation - speakers are bose 901 VI)

I hope you can help me to get the same low-noise on the both amplifiers and I thank you in advance (in french that would be easyer for me)

thank you for your responses, even in english !!

Without being able to perform measurements, we cannot tell if the noise is within the specs or not. Furthermore, do you mean ‘noise’ or ‘hum’ ? Hum is low frequency noise, either 50 or 100Hz. Apparantly, besides the noise, the amp is working fine.
If you insist, you can return the amp for inspection.
If you decide to do so, please return it to:

Velleman Kit Tech Dept.
Legen Heirweg 33
9890 Gavere
Belgium

I resolve the problem of noise by moving away minimum 3 cm the power tranformer from the main board (it was near IC6/IC7) and now it’s very well !