Dayton Audio SA 1000 subwoofer amp - repair

Good job!! 

We have become such a throw away society. Why bother fixing it..."just get a new one" is so much easier. Consumerism and planned obsolescence are part of the design. So many devices can easily be repaired but get conveniently dumped instead.

We used to have 'shop class' in High school. There should be a class that teaches the skill of trouble shooting and repair of these common problems around the house. Kids aren't taught this. Instead, they are taught to call a repairman to come do it for them as they sit there 'doom scrolling' on their I-phone.

Heck, I even remember, back in the day,  when we would do service on our own cars. Imagine that!

Love posts like this.  Nice work in seeing this repair through despite very unhelpful tech support through Parts Express.  FWIW I have found their tech support a crap shoot.  Sometimes excellent, other times not.

Thanks for sharing this easy fix.

One of my Daytons is acting up again, I  had it on the other night and 5 minutes later it was off!  Shut itself down. Before this the blue light was red when I just happened to look at it, as I stated above  in a previous post. I want this amp to work need it to work.  You think it could be that 2 dollar cap? Not much out there on repairing these, I couldn't find anything other than @steakster  post above. 

@brunomarcs My SA1000 didn’t shut down. It remained on with a high-pitched hum. Take the cover off and check for bad caps. Either leaking or swollen. Though the cap in the C6 position looked fine, replacing it fixed the problem. Good luck!

Mine didn't make any noise and I tried it last night and it worked, only used it for a minute or two shut it down, I want to repair before using again. Thanks.