Alright, so I put together my first crack in November and everything went together well. I've been using it and loving the sound. I originally also purchased the speedball, and put that all together this weekend. The small circuit board went together fine and all voltage checks were spot on. I assembled the large circuit board and installed. It had been unplugged for a number of minutes when I went to solder the white wires onto 7 and 9, and I got a decent crack/pop from the capacitor (the blue 100uf ones right there) and it sparked just a bit. It happened pretty quickly and I'm frankly not 100% where I touched that caused it, but I shorted it out with my soldering iron. I'm pretty sure I waited over 30 seconds, but oh well.
I completed the large circuit board installation, but did not pass the large board resistance checks, and thus have not done voltage check. For the large circuit board, resistance checks at OA and OB aren't reading anything. Just O.L, where the manual states it should be measuring hundreds of K-ohms. This is where I stopped. I went back and did all the resistance checks in the crack manual, and everything was correct except for O.L (my meter's read for open lead or failed resistor) at B3, B6, 7, 9, which were all O.L. I am getting 0 ohm at 6, 10.
So I'm quite sure I probably just need to replace these capacitors and (hopefully) everything will be fixed, but want to get some expert opinion before proceeding. I see no visible damage to anything, anywhere. Capacitors all look fine.
Another question: If this is a capacitor damage problem, and I do need to pick up some replacements, does anyone have any recommendations for capacitor upgrades? Figure if there is any significant improvement to be had, this would be t he time to do it. I use HD650s...
Thanks in advance for any advice.
