{"id":5,"date":"2008-06-07T18:18:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-08T01:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-06-07T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2008-06-08T01:23:12","slug":"finally-gave-up-on-my-nexus-jaguar-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Finally Gave Up on My Nexus Jaguar Amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . from 6 years ago<\/p>\n<p>I bought a &#8220;stereo&#8221; from another guy at high school composed of a Digital Designs 15&#8243; subwoofer and a Nexus Jaguar 1100 watt amplifier when I was a sophomore in high school. I&#8217;ve been digging through the electronics off and on for the last couple of years.  I finally got it out again yesterday and immediately noticed that the bank of 6 power filter capacitors in the center were pretty bulgy.  I tried desoldering them (with the aid of a 1500W heat gun to &#8220;preheat&#8221;) and to no avail, I got a single capacitor out with the through hole plating still stuck to the legs &#8211; so that pad is dead. . .  I took a look online to find the cheapest substitute was about $35\/each and quickly realized that this wasn&#8217;t worth it at all.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7\" title=\"dsc04579\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04579-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The curse of bulgy capacitors strikes another electrical item\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04578.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8\" title=\"Nexus Jaguar Amplifier\" src=\"http:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/dsc04578-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The amplifier in all of its glory\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So the former neighborhood terrorizer will be surrendered into the &#8220;spare parts bin&#8221; to live on in whatever may need parts off of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . from 6 years ago I bought a &#8220;stereo&#8221; from another guy at high school composed of a Digital Designs 15&#8243; subwoofer and a Nexus Jaguar 1100 watt amplifier when I was a sophomore in high school. I&#8217;ve been digging through the electronics off and on for the last couple of years. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrismeyer.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}