Power Problem with RCA-RT2500 Home Theater System

Idz21

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Dec 22, 2001
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Hey all,

I have had the RCA RT2500 Home Theater System for about 4 years now. When it was working I hardly ever used it, but when I needed to it worked. :)

One day, about 8-10 months ago, I was unable to turn it on. I thought it was weird and figured something was up with my surge protector. So I switched electrical ports and voila, it turned on and worked fine. A couple of weeks after that it wouldn't turn on again, so I tried a bunch of different plugs - even directly to the wall. Nothing worked.

The strange thing is that when I plug it into power I can see the little red light turn on in the 'power button' - or remote receiver. So it's definately getting power, but there's something wrong with the power mechanism or something. I tried unplugging all speakers from it - still no go. I took the cover off and re-plugged some power switches - still no go. Maybe there's not enough juice to power the system. :confused:

Does anyone have an idea of what I can do to fix this myself? Maybe someone has the same receiver and ran into the same problem. It figures that the $300 receiver goes bad as soon as my $100 3 year warranty runs out :(

This might not be the correct forum to post this, so if anyone can point me to a forum which deals with these types of things directly. I posted the same thread on doityourself.com
 

AlienCraft

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Power switch may be bad. Or the speaker protection relay circuit is bad. Either one will prevent it from turning on.
If you're competant, open the case and with a jumper, jump across the terminal the power switch has and see if it powers up.
Otherwise, decide if you want to spend a few bucks to repair or if you want to toss it and buy a new one.
 

Idz21

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Dec 22, 2001
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Originally posted by: AlienCraft
Power switch may be bad. Or the speaker protection relay circuit is bad. Either one will prevent it from turning on.
If you're competant, open the case and with a jumper, jump across the terminal the power switch has and see if it powers up.
Otherwise, decide if you want to spend a few bucks to repair or if you want to toss it and buy a new one.

Not sure what you mean when you say, "with a jumper". I would like to ideally fix this myself. When I opened up the case I couldn't notice anything wrong with it.