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  1. Bose Speaker AMP Service 01

    by , 09-08-2011 at 11:41 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)





    Started removing the passenger foot well speaker box.



    When I removed the carpet, I found that the kick plate and speaker box were not even secured to the floor.

    The fixing bolts and nuts were not even hand tighten and just placed in the holes to sit there.




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    The kick plate was neither fixed nor aligned properly and one of the wire was dangerously ...
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  2. Bose Speaker AMP Service 02

    by , 13-07-2011 at 11:11 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)



    All three AMPs showed lots of leakage from the capacitors.

    One of the door AMP didn’t even make any noise/sound when it was powered up.

    As the owner contacted me many months ago and he wanted to have them returned urgently, we agreed that instead of trying to investigate and refurbish this AMP, best to replace it with my spare unit refurbished a few years ago.



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  3. Bose Speaker AMP Service 01

    by , 13-07-2011 at 11:09 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)




    From time to time, I get requests from outside UK for A/C CCU and Bose AMP services.



    Also, I was asked from many potential owners as well as existing ones to carry out ‘pre-purchase inspection’ or even ‘servicing’ their NSX in their countries.


    So far, I have politely declined all of the pre-purchase inspection requests as I made my own policy before exposing some of my background on the web and also I would like
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  4. Bose Speaker AMP Service 02 - Done

    by , 23-04-2011 at 11:40 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)


    After servicing the two remaining Front AMPs, all three are ready to be tested on the bench.


    As my standard procedure, each AMPs were aged/driven at least 2Hrs with reasonably high signal level to test them under heat.


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    Happy with the result so they are now ready to be returned to the owner together with the ...

    Updated 24-04-2011 at 11:47 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (Too many spaces)

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  5. Bose Speaker AMP Service 01

    by , 21-04-2011 at 11:11 PM (Today at Atelier Kaz - ex-Honda R&D, F1, Indy/CART engineer)


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    Managed to finish the service on the CCU board and sent out the Final report to the owner.







    Now, it’s time to work on the Bose Speaker AMPs.


    Bose modified the AMP board design around mid 90’s but still, the spec of electrolytic capacitors were not upgraded and thus, sooner or later, they will start leaking the acid.
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    Updated 22-04-2011 at 09:06 AM by Kaz-kzukNA1 (Category)

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