Hi,
After receiving my crack with speedball, I first built the stock crack over the course of a day, and have been listening to it for a couple of days now. At this point, all resistances and voltages were correct, so yesterday I decided to do the speedball.
The small board went well, and I was really impressed by how it sounded. When doing the large board, however, two things went wrong: firstly, one of the leads came off of one of the 10W 3K wirewound resistors, so I can no longer revert back; secondly, I somehow lost one of the LEDs on the big board, but being an impatient idiot, I figured the LED was for indication of errors only, and I went ahead with the assembly without it.
When I turned it on to check the resistances and voltages, something near the rear of the chassis started smoking (maybe the transformer), so I immediately shut it off. I didn't know what to do, so I put in a random led I had lying around and mounted it in place of the missing one (with the correct polarity).
When I checked the resistances afterwards, the resistances of 7,9, 10, B3, and B6 all read 1 instead of their proper values. All else is correct. The led was just to complete the circuit, and I have not applied voltage to anything since. I know I have made a lot of stupid mistakes, but I would like some help in figuring out whether or not I made some irreparable damage to anything (especially the transformer) and how to remedy the situation, if at all possible.
Thank you very much for your help.
After receiving my crack with speedball, I first built the stock crack over the course of a day, and have been listening to it for a couple of days now. At this point, all resistances and voltages were correct, so yesterday I decided to do the speedball.
The small board went well, and I was really impressed by how it sounded. When doing the large board, however, two things went wrong: firstly, one of the leads came off of one of the 10W 3K wirewound resistors, so I can no longer revert back; secondly, I somehow lost one of the LEDs on the big board, but being an impatient idiot, I figured the LED was for indication of errors only, and I went ahead with the assembly without it.
When I turned it on to check the resistances and voltages, something near the rear of the chassis started smoking (maybe the transformer), so I immediately shut it off. I didn't know what to do, so I put in a random led I had lying around and mounted it in place of the missing one (with the correct polarity).
When I checked the resistances afterwards, the resistances of 7,9, 10, B3, and B6 all read 1 instead of their proper values. All else is correct. The led was just to complete the circuit, and I have not applied voltage to anything since. I know I have made a lot of stupid mistakes, but I would like some help in figuring out whether or not I made some irreparable damage to anything (especially the transformer) and how to remedy the situation, if at all possible.
Thank you very much for your help.
