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Bronze Member Username: Thunder18Post Number: 22 Registered: Jul-05 | Alright guys, due to a freak electrical accident, I had the opportunity to open up my VSX-9300TX to take a peek inside. Here are a couple links to the two 27,000 micro-farad capacitors: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cchri...b&.dnm=1641.jpg http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cchri...9c8.jpg&.src=ph Here is a top view of the unit without the cover: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cchri...b&.dnm=5288.jpg Here are a couple picture of my new Tripp-lite UPS/surge protector. It's a beauty and the lighted LCD display is removeable for mounting the unit vertically or horizontally and includes 8 power outlets(4 with battery back-up and 4 without as well as coax and usb surge protection: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cchri...b&.dnm=c494.jpg http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/cchri...aac.jpg&.src=ph Anyway, here's the sob story. I'm sure most of you are familiar with a standard digital cable box, 2 coax cables going in and one coax going out to your tv. So I had the single coax output going into my surge protector and then out to my TV and I thought I was safe. Well, I guess the power surge went into the cable box from the wall, and left the cable box through the S-video and went right into my month old receiver. From there, the receiver distributed the surge to my powered subwoofer, my HDTV and my PS2! I'm assuming the same surge also took out the cable modem in my bedrrom and my VCR which were both connected to the same coax cable. The two s-video cables(cable box to receiver, receiver to TV) were charred at both ends as were the s-video connectors on all components involved. The cat5 cable was only charred at the cable modem as was the cable modems network cable socket. Strangely enough my go-video dvd/vcr in the living room and the circa '92 Toshiba tv in the bedroom survived as did my computer. I have extended warranties on the receiver, the ps2 and the TV, however the subwoofer will be an out of pocket expense. The TV's warranty is an in-home warranty so I had to make an appointment to have it seen and I have to miss work while they work on the TV at my house, of course it won't even turn on so I know they are going to say they have to take it, but the hurtful part is that the appointment isn't until the 17th and my stuff has been damaged since monday. The receiver I dropped off at Best Buy yesterday and they said it should be back by the 27th The PS2 i'm not too worried about, but I can pretty much take in at any time. Anyway...I guess my next step is to buy one more coax surge protector so that I can have both the a and b coax cables going into the cable box protected. |