Just adding a few photos of pcb’s prior to cleaning .

any experienced guys think this qualifies as potential causes of faults or more likely components damaged ?

If there are any B&O repair places in Oz, you could just post the amplifiers to them and then focus on the individual speakers after.

Were the schematics for the Beolab 1 ever released?

It seems like the need for secrecy, for both the OEM and secondary repair businesses, has long passed.

garibaldi70: In your 8845 picture, it appears like the corrosion may have eaten through the copper traces. Cleaning these with something like a scratch pen would be one of the first steps in debugging. This kind of repair, and Class-D amplifiers in general, can be difficult if you don't have the proper equipment.

Glitch

Two things:   1. Copper ink pens for drawing up and closing connections on pcbs are on amazon 2. “kose trading” located in Kobenhaben / copenhagen may have the parts and board you need if you prefer to consult with a guy who knows many of these products inside and out. It is a pleasure to work with the guy there. Highly recommend!

let us know how you fair. Also ive heard that capacitors on pcbs are sometimes an issue and can be replaced over time with some skill, time and at minimum cost. Links on forum regarding replacing and ordering capacitors: 1. https://uk.farnell.com/   2. https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beosound-9000-ir-repair-pcb-14/#post-55674   3. https://forum.beoworld.org/forums/topic/beosound-ouverture-cd-not-working/

Schematics would be awesome.

 

also note im a novice and my suggestion regarding replacing or checking the health of yoir capacitors and board with a Multimeter is simply that: a suggestion :-)

Keep at it, things will turn in your favor for you and the BL1s!

Luckily the Beolab 1 can still be repaired by Bang & Olufsen.


Had this a few weeks ago as one of them was destroyed after a thunderstorm.

Handling:
The Chassis containing the electronics needs to be removed from the speakers and will be shipped to the good guys in Struer and they where fast, too. :-)
Repair costed me about ~ 630 Euro plus shipping to the dealer.

That's a much more convenient option than sending the complete speaker. If you have a B&O dealer somewhere around he should know the procedure.

What about this workshop? Maybe he can help.

Thanks for advice guys.

dismantled the pcb’s and with help of a new set of headband magnifiers, inspected the board closely and cleaned with isopropyl alcohol. The only slightly abnormal capacitor I could see was a tiny SMD 3mm x 1.5mm one with some blackening on the top so not sure this could cause such a catastrophic failure but you never know as could mean the chip next to it is faulty .All other capacitors seemed to look fine and ones I could access I performed some simple continuity tests with a multimeter. Haven’t been to trouble of taking any off for full test . Was hoping it would have been simple capacitor problem and easy to see but that’s next step.

ive ordered a cheap thermal camera to see if any chips show signs of shorting/ excessive heat  and that’s probably as far as i can take it myself as it’s been 30 years since my physics degree when I last really played with electronics !

trying to repair these as cheaply as possible - running on fumes here due to a long ongoing legal dispute with major tech companies over patent infringement but that’s another story altogether !

I did see a pair of Beolab 1’s with a Beolab 2 for sale for A$500 and advert was only 5 hours old but as Aus is a large country it would have cost me $1k to ship it by time appropriate packaging had been made. By time I figured could be cheap to just use the boards they were gone . Damn

Will see if can find fault myself in meantime- sent a few emails out but nobody really responding. Spoke to B and O a few years back who gave me a guys number but he wasn’t really interested in a pcb fix- just said best to replace whole amp board .

wont give up yet !