Drzoigberg
pfm Member
Has anyone else had the power supply on there Nord amp fail ?
Mine started playing up after it was off for a while. It was stored in it packaging on top of the wardrobe for maybe 8-12 months.
On switching on it took about 5 mins for one channel to power up and about an hour for the other.
I contacted Colin North and he said he had a couple of amps in which this had happened but hadn’t had chance to look at the problem.
To be honest I found Colin very unhelpful, he couldn’t tell me if the problem had been corrected. He said he was too busy to repair it. He just wanted to sell me some replacement boards. He also informed me that the amp was 2 years old and what do I expect.
I then contacted Hypex, they also informed me that they had had this issue. They asked me for me serial number on the power supplies.
Anyway in the meantime maybe 8 months or so ago, my amp was working so I was happy, didn’t follow it up. Then sadly 2 months back my amp stopped working on one channel all together.
I then contacted Hypex with the serial numbers. The responded saying mine was not one in the effected serial number range to have this problem.
To me this means this problem is endemic and could happen to every Hypex or Nord amp with this ps in.
I don’t know what to do, I am the thick end of 2k down with nothing to show for it !
Hypex said replace C38 and C39 caps, but I am worried if I do I won’t have a leg to stand on when taking this further .
Mine started playing up after it was off for a while. It was stored in it packaging on top of the wardrobe for maybe 8-12 months.
On switching on it took about 5 mins for one channel to power up and about an hour for the other.
I contacted Colin North and he said he had a couple of amps in which this had happened but hadn’t had chance to look at the problem.
To be honest I found Colin very unhelpful, he couldn’t tell me if the problem had been corrected. He said he was too busy to repair it. He just wanted to sell me some replacement boards. He also informed me that the amp was 2 years old and what do I expect.
I then contacted Hypex, they also informed me that they had had this issue. They asked me for me serial number on the power supplies.
Anyway in the meantime maybe 8 months or so ago, my amp was working so I was happy, didn’t follow it up. Then sadly 2 months back my amp stopped working on one channel all together.
I then contacted Hypex with the serial numbers. The responded saying mine was not one in the effected serial number range to have this problem.
To me this means this problem is endemic and could happen to every Hypex or Nord amp with this ps in.
I don’t know what to do, I am the thick end of 2k down with nothing to show for it !
Hypex said replace C38 and C39 caps, but I am worried if I do I won’t have a leg to stand on when taking this further .