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

And after removing many capacitors including the ones not in the photo, found out that some of the circuit pattern/track were dissolved and one of them was damaged by the previous service.





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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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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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A/C CCU Board Service , Electronics , Audio

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

Will need to use hard wire to strengthen one of the track as it dissolved too far.





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