I have a Rotel RB985 power amp, wich I bought secondhand about a month ago. Was working fine till last night when the center channel protection light came on.
I switched off the amp and found it to be very hot. I checked all the cables and connections, and switched it on again, just to find that after about 2 minutes, all the protection light came on, and this time the amp was very very hot. I then removed it from the livingroom to my study and connected it to a Denon reciever with pre-outs and tested all the channels two by two in stereo mode and all was working fine with nothing heating up at all. I did not play the amp very loud in the livingroom asswell and their is plenty of spacfe around the amp. This morning I borrowed another amp from a friend and tested it with my processor and it was working fine.
I also opened the cover of the 985 and had a look inside, with no visible damage at all.
My question is what could be wrong with it, and even more importent, what will it cost to fix the damned thing.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards
I switched off the amp and found it to be very hot. I checked all the cables and connections, and switched it on again, just to find that after about 2 minutes, all the protection light came on, and this time the amp was very very hot. I then removed it from the livingroom to my study and connected it to a Denon reciever with pre-outs and tested all the channels two by two in stereo mode and all was working fine with nothing heating up at all. I did not play the amp very loud in the livingroom asswell and their is plenty of spacfe around the amp. This morning I borrowed another amp from a friend and tested it with my processor and it was working fine.
I also opened the cover of the 985 and had a look inside, with no visible damage at all.
My question is what could be wrong with it, and even more importent, what will it cost to fix the damned thing.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Regards
