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unsolder and remove it. Install and solder a new zener diode oriented in the

same direction. Do the same with diode D210.

11. Check your work. Don’t reattach the channel module assembly and heat sink to

the chassis yet. Instead, continue with the bias and current-limit calibration.

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Procedure: Installing new zener diodes in an

ISA 450 or ISA 500T amplifier

1. Disconnect the amplifier from AC and wait at least 10 minutes for internal voltages to bleed down. Remove the top cover.

2. Remove the four screws on the bottom of the amplifier that fasten the heat sink to the chassis.

3. Remove the three screws that attach the channel module assembly to the chassis standoffs.

4. Locate zener diodes D107 and D110 on the channel 1 module (the upper circuit board). Bend and trim the leads of two

new zener diodes and solder them piggyback-style to D107 and D110, oriented in the same direction (Figure 4).

5. Turn the channel module assembly over and repeat step 4 with zener diodes D207 and D210.

6. Check your work. Don’t reattach the channel module assembly and heat sink to the chassis yet. Instead, continue with

the bias and current-limit calibration.

Procedure: Bias and current-limit calibration

Note: During the current-limiting part of this procedure, the amplifier will draw high amounts of AC: approximately 22 am-

peres at 120V, or 11 amperes at 230V. Be thorough, but work quickly to avoid tripping the amplifier's circuit breaker.

1. Start with the variable transformer turned all the way down to zero, the amplifier turned off, and its top cover still removed.

2. On the amplifier's circuit boards, locate resistors R147 and R247, and trimpots R131, R231, R139, R239, R140, and R240.

To reach R147 on the ISA 750 and ISA 800T or R247 on the ISA 450 and ISA 500T, rotate the chassis module assembly

and rest it on the heat sink so the bottom circuit board is accessible. Note that the trimpots for the bottom channel

module are located on a

small circuit board next to

the top module.

3. Plug the amplifier into the

variable transformer.

4. Turn the gain controls all

the way down.

5. Turn the amplifier on and

gradually turn up the

variable transformer to

the amplifier's normal

operating voltage while

you monitor its AC current

draw (it should not

grossly exceed the idle

current figures in Table 1).

Make sure the amplifier is

functioning correctly.

Bias adjustment (perform

only with unit at ambient

temperature)

Note: This calibration must be

done with the amplifier

circuitry at ambient tempera-

ture. If the amp has begun to

warm up, you must turn it off

Figure 4. Solder a new zener diode

“piggyback”-style onto each old one.

Table 1.

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