Realistic STA-2000 Stereo Receive
Hello All,
I have an old Realistic STA-2000 stereo AM/FM receiver/AMP I got from my father in law. He bought them along with his Realistic Mach One's many moons ago. Unfortunately, he says he believes the power amps blew on it and told me i could look at it if I wanted to. The reason I'm looking into it is no other amp we have ever connected properly pushes the mach one's.
So I started looking this amp over and i noticed right by where the power cord enters the unit there is a fuse terminal. I unscrew the terminal and the fuse in there is blown. I think to myself.."alright! that's all it was!"...so i dash out to radioshack and I get a 7A, 250V fast blow fuse (the back of the unit says 7A, 125V but we couldn't find any and a 250V is what was already in the unit..in past experiences the voltage didn't necessarily have to be exact if it was a little higher).
Anyways..i put the new fuse in, plug it in and power it on...the lights came on for a split second then went right out again. I unplugged the unit and the fuse had blown again! I'm not sure what would have caused that to happen???
I was looking around the back of it and there is a thumbscrew labeled "ground" on the back of it..but I'm not sure what to connect to it and what to connect it to....any suggestions and could this be causing the fuse to blow???
thanks..
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but....
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Originally Posted by greymalkin
Hello All,
Anyways..i put the new fuse in, plug it in and power it on...the lights came on for a split second then went right out again. I unplugged the unit and the fuse had blown again! I'm not sure what would have caused that to happen???
I was looking around the back of it and there is a thumbscrew labeled "ground" on the back of it..but I'm not sure what to connect to it and what to connect it to....any suggestions and could this be causing the fuse to blow???
thanks..
You got yourself a toaster.
Don't waste another fuse on it. If you want to have a tech look at it that's fine, but it's going to cost you, and your better off saving your $$$ for something newer/working.
The ground is for hooking it up to a turntable. It's not going to help with your fuse problem.