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I have a Klipsch iFi 2.1 Speaker System for iPods (Discontinued). It has been off for a few months and now it does not power up - no power on LED glowing on the back panel and the iPod dock control does not light up either. The internal 2A fuse is fine, and 115V AC is going into the fuse clips. I can’t go any further in without electricueting myself. Has anyone else experienced a dead iFi and sucessfully troubleshooted it? Thanks - Mike
Case closed!
Yippey! Got it working by replacing the 25V 4700pf capacitor and 4 of the 35V 4700 pf capacitors. The original caps had bulging tops, so replaced them with true audio grade caps (Nichicon brand). I found a post on the Klipsch support website.
On mine, the fuses would blow in just a second. since they are slow blow, that makes sense. the real problem was that the MOV1 or varistor (the little round yellow transistor next to the fuse) was blown, and was creating a short circuit. I looked into getting a replacement for TVR14181, but finally decided to do the best thing…….. cut it out with snipes and use a surge protector that had the same functionality. device works fine!
