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Hi all,
I have a pair of beolab 9 and recently one of then has been going into yellow mode for no reason! What could this mean? I have no money to fix it if it's broken :/ I thought it was due to high volume use but the other one is fine!
Which BeoLab are they?
Lee
Hi Lee, beolab 9... i may have just got my answer this morning. the left speaker just goes straight into yellow mode when the music starts, even at low volume.... but this morning it continued to play, and i listened to the tweeter reduce its volume, then it went to yellow after a minute or two. I've disconnected it now. I think the tweeter amp has just $#!t itself *sigh* Anyone have any idea on the cheapest way to fix this? :( They're only 4 years old.
"You think we can slap some oak on this thing?"
Haha! 5 years? No where near i'm afraid, it was a 2 year warranty at the time of purchase in 2010. Of course, i will be asking B&O if it's acceptable for this sort of malfunction to happen only 4 years after being released from the factory.
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Plugged it back in and now it works as normal... *weird*
Hm, I have this on my brand new BL9s also. The left speaker turned yellow last night and it has happened perhaps ten times before. For no apparent reason. Connected to a Avant 55" with RJ-45 to DIN-adapters going to the right speaker and then from the right speaker to the left one. Also always works directly after plugging it out for a few minutes. Never play loud.
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I've had a pair that did this, turned out to be the tweeter coil fly leads solder ontop, faintly making contact with the top metal housing,
2 tiny pieces of insulation tape over the solder remedied the issue , same can happen on the beovision 9 and beolab 7.4 speaker
jason
Thanks Jason! I'll try that this arvo :)
Hey Jason, just need a bit of a leg up... Is this inside the tweeter?? I took it apart but only found wiring for the LED in the top metal housing, that and a foam brick. This has nothing to do with the amps in the main body of the speaker does it...
The half moon aluminium cover with the logo on slides forward to remove, that will reveal the 2 solder spots that need the tape on to stop them touching that logo cover plate
im not saying it will defiantly be the same issue with yours but it costs nothing to fix if it is and I've seen it more than once
Thanks for that Jason, when I removed that and the tweeter it appeared that the solder points weren't coming near the metal, i taped them up though but it didn't fix it :( It's a weird issue, it no longer agrees to turn on, just flicks green for half a second then straight to yellow when the speaker is powered up.I wonder if it's a power issue to the tweeter... everything looked perfect inside, nothing burnt or damaged. I wonder how i'll get it fixed! My nearest dealer is over 1200km away lol!
Sorry to here it wasn't the simple fix
No worries :)
So i've isolated the problem right down to the tweeter part. Does anyone know how much this module (part number 9009 8480084 Tweeter) usually costs?
I'm coherent with electronics so can just order one and fit it, but do i have to calibrate the potentiometers, or is that more to do with the amps getting along with each other, which they do :) Better yet does anyone have a spare beolab 9 tweeter they aren't using? lol I'm surprised that the BL9 could not protect its own tweeter. A bit disappointing.