Beomaster 5500 and Loose RCAs

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styppen
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Posted November 2, 2019 at 19:19 GMT
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Hi all

Had a strange incident yesterday. I was trying to unplug the turntable from the Beomaster and one of the RCA plugs got stuck. I just couldn't get it out with my hand so I had to get some pliers. I had to use significant force to unplug the lead. But it looks like I have damaged the RCA jacks on the receiver in the process. There's no sound coming through the phono. I tried with two turntables and both produced no sound.

Is it possible I broke the solders of the RCA jacks?

Is that an easy repair or should I take it to a professional to fix it?

AdamS
AdamS
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638 posts
Posted November 5, 2019 at 13:33 GMT
#2129291

Yes it does happen - I was given a 'non-working' Beomaster 5500 a few years ago with this very same issue with more than one of the RCA input sockets. One had been so badly damaged it ripped some of the tracking off, too.

It's not a difficult repair if you're handy with a soldering iron - you just need to clean off the old solder, re-fit the sockets onto the PCB and re-solder them, assuming they have just pulled out and not actually broken.

ST
styppen
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112 posts
Posted November 5, 2019 at 17:56 GMT
#2129292

Thanks for the info. Now I need to find a timeslot when I'll open the Beomaster and have a look at it :).

How did you solve the ripped tracking? Anything I should know in particular?

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