You may remember my thread on the old forum asking about learning basic electronic skills; well, I think my opportunity is here. I've got a soldering kit with both a gun and a low watt iron, some decent insulated tools, and I'm waiting for my meter to arrive. I've also acquired a Beocentre 2002 with a couple of issues.
Now, before you tell me, I know this is not a particularly worthy product, and that's exactly why I want to try working on it. I got it for £16, which was very cheap just for the good condition S30s and the work MMC20S, so I feel like the unit itself was as good as free, and since it's not much loved by anyone, it doesn't matter if I risk working on it. So, the issues are that the left hand side speaker channels don't work; the seller thought it was just dry joints in the outputs, but I know enough about how things work to realise that could be wishful thinking. Can someone who knows their onions talk me through faultfinding this? I need to know the steps, but also why you'd take those steps, as I want to learn the necessary thought processes. The tape deck also doesn't work (sellers thinks it just needs a belt), but I'll think about that after I've done the speaker channels.
