Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer

While servicing the NSX, in the background, I was helping other owners for the Bose AMP, audio head unit and the A/C CCU.
Just touching on the AMP and head unit in this post.


As always, I recommend all owners to carry out the preventative measure with the well-known issues on our NSX as it will save one’s time and money a lot.

This owner acted early enough with his Bose AMP that although the capacitors were already leaking, ...

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Audio

For this week, I have been tackling the OEM head unit that lost the power due to massive acid leakage from the dead capacitors.

It is by far the worst condition that I have ever dealt with.



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Tags: audio head unit, zenor diode

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While recovering from the sore hand, started working on long overdue electronics services for several owners/garages.

At the moment, I have 5 x Bose AMP, 1 x A/C CCU board and just received 1 x Audio Head Unit.
Addition to these, there is one NSX sitting in the garage and I need to find the time to carry out MOT on my NSX and MX-5.



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Tags: a/c ccu, a/c ccu board, alpine, audio head unit, bose, bose amp, ccu board

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A/C CCU Board Service , Electronics , Audio

Installed the R speaker box and audio head unit back on the car and tested using CD, radio and cassette.

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In the mean time, I opened the audio head unit and found this.
Severe acid leakage from the capacitors and some of the tracks were just keeping the continuity with hair line width of remainging track.
No wonder why there were signal issues such as imbalance between R and L channels.



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A/C CCU Board Service , Audio