hi
Help and advice needed from all the Klipsch sub10
owners. I am from India.
My Klipsch Subwoofer Sub10 speaker went down again.
I bought the Klipsch F1 5.1 home theatre speaker
package and onkyo tx sr 606 together from the onkyo
dealer in hyderabad on Jan 25 2009.
Though all the others , front F1 set, surround S1 set
,center c1 are passive and onkyo TX SR606 is
sustaining the Indian power supply and working well,
this subwoofer some how goes down. It does not switch
on at all.The blue power LED in the front of woofer
doest not glow when the power supply is given. The
subwoofer goes off permanently. Electric shock is felt on the small screws in the backside of the subwoofer. I checked whether
just the LED is not glowing and if the speaker still
works by triggering sound output using the level
calibration setup of onkyo receiver. But the
subwoofer is really down. No sound. It is the second
time happening like this. The first time it happened
it was just 10 days from the day it was bought. I got
a replacement with a new sub10. I was adviced by the
dealer to use a 1KVA voltage stablizer. I bought
Unistar 1KVA voltage stablizer. The second unit
worked well for the past 4 months after I got the
replacement of the first speaker.
I dont see the fuse affected, Well frankly I dont
know how to check whether the fuse has went away.
There is a thin wire seen in the middle of the fuse
capsule. I hope that the fuse has not gone.
I checked the user manual today.
In the user manual it is clearly written that the
subwoofer should be supplied with the exact power
supply specified in the back side of the unit. It is
specified as 230V 50Hz, 1.0 A. A bluder realised after iit is too late.
How can I get a proper power supply mentioned in
India? In India it 240V,50Hz AC supply I think.
Also I identify one more problem. I live in Madhapur
area in hyderabad in a rented house. Here none of the
houses has got proper earth connection. I observed shock every where. You wont
believe , just to protect my expensive home theatre
system, particularly this subwoofer , I changed my
previous house I was staying, where there was no
ground earthing and the owner denied to provide
one.It is in that house the first failiure happened.
In this new house, I made sure with the owner that
the earth connection is proper. Here there are two
switch boards.Each one with one three pin socket. To
first switch board's socket I have directly given
connection to my LCD TV. TO the other second switch
board socket I connected Unistar 1KVA Voltage
Stablizer to which a Spike buster is connected. There
are 4, three pin sockets in this spike buster. I have
taken power for Onkyo reciever, subwoofer,
ps3,philips dvd player. The spike buster has
individual switches. So I switch off DVD player or
PS3 which ever not in use at any particular time. As
a symptom a few days before, I noticed that there was
an electric shock coming from the spike buster
connection to TV , reciever and all the connected
devices even the when DVD player and PS3 are switched
off(i.e to all devices connected the receiver). I
dont know the technical reason. I removed the
Stablizer from the second switch board and plugged
the spike buster directly to the main switch board.
The shock prevailed. I switched off the supply of the
second switch board ,to the spike buster and checked
if the shock is from the other switch to which TV is
connnected. There was no shock. I then connected the
reciever directly to the second switch board. There
was no shock. So I concluded that problem of shock is
not there when we connect directly and that the spike
buster is the problem. SO I started worrying the
problem of this shock and earthing continues in the
second house also. I didnt use the system the whole
day. I bought a new spike buster. There was no shock
after connecting all the devices to the similar setup
of spike buster and Stablizer.I thought the problem
got solved. But now today after I have lost the sub
woofer for the second time, I checked for whether
thereis a shoch by touching on the DVD player and the
composite pins of the TV. I observed heavy current
shock flowing.
I could not understand what is wrong. WHat should I
blame. I understood from the manual that I was using
a wrong power supply in the one end and on the other
end , understood that I should not use any spike
buster for powering any device , but only direct
connection. Please help me with my problem. I plan
to install seperate switch board and socket for each
device. Though the warranty period is still there, I dont know if the ONkyo dealers will entertain me by providing a new subwoofer again. I
feel guilty to approach them as I feel I have not
known the knowledge on how to protect my precious
home theatre system, subwoofer in particular. But I
expect to learn properly from you experienced guys.
How are the other users of SUB10 in India solved the power
supply issue. I want a safe power circuitry and
proper power supply suitable for my subwoofer.
Please help me correct my mistakes.
