TurboDuo sound issue - No Sound coming out of the left channel

[ceti alpha]

Nice work! 

[nodtveidt]

Sweet, good job. Welcome to the "f*ck sending it to someone else to fix, I'll do it myself" club.

[nat]

Congrats man. Thanks for saving another Duo from the landfill.

[turbokon]

Thanks, guys.  It means a lot that you guys cares.

[turbokon]

Even knowing I what I do now, I didn't regret picking up this bad boy off of ebay.  I paid 210.  It came with a convertor and "Riot Zone".  Now I'm eyeing a turbo express. 

[nat]

Hey, $210 for a US Duo, converter, and Riot Zone is a decent deal!

[Turbo D]

I can't believe a deal like that existed on ebay 

[ceti alpha]

I can't believe a deal like that existed on ebay  Shocked

hehe. Yeah, that is a super deal, especially since turbokon was able to fix the sound issue himself. Very nice. He makes me look stupid for sending mine to d-lite. lol  :oops:   

[turbokon]

Yea, it was "buy it now".  I thought it was a good deal I snagged it up the same day it was listed.  I'm going do the region mod next then I can put the convertor back on ebay.  Hey, anybody have a sound issue turbo express they want to sell me cheap

[turbokon]

I got my new lens today.  I removed the old one and put in the new one but I couldn't get it work even after tinkering with the potentiometer.  The old one seemed to work better so I pick the old one back on.

[Necromancer]

Congrats on getting the sound working, but sorry to hear that the new laser assembly didn't work.

[turbokon]

Well, a new sound issue arise today.  I came across this new issue around this afternoon.  This morning I was playing Lords of Thunder and even get to the last stage without any issue.  Suddenly, when I went back to turn the duo on around the afternoon to see I could beat LOF, this issue came up.  I have noticed ever since I had the duo, right when you turn on the duo, during the super system opening screen, there's one crackling sound and that's it.  Now, this crackling sound is occurring through out and the sound is very low and sporadicly it goes back to normal level for a brief second.  Any ideas? I'm thinking it's the potentiometers I relaced with.

[turbokon]

I have found the cause of that crackling (static) sound, it's those darn caps.  I was able to see the one that leaked, it was the 22uf cap third one down on the pre-amp side.  That leak give off a terrible stink.  My duo's sound problem is yet solved again.

[Necromancer]

Whoever did that classy soldering job must've used some shitty, Vietnam era, Soviet made caps; hopefully you won't end up replacing all of 'em.  Even with the problems this Duo's thrown at you, it's still a pretty sweet deal for $210.

[SNKNostalgia]

If your new lens isn't working but your old one does a little, then just order another new lens. I might just order two of them and send back the one that doesn't work for a refund. I had the same thing happen when I order two of them from electronix.com. One lens doesn't respond and the other works perfect. Made in China, gonna have some bad ones out of the bunch.