Pioneer SX-1000 TD Dead Ceramic Phono Input

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

Hopefully you didn't blow the input...you say the input is rated for 51mV=.051V, but you connected a .500V cartridge that would feed it 10x it's rating... unless you misreported those numbers the cartridge should be too strong for the input.

Does the input selector have 2 different phone positions for the 2 inputs or is there a switch somewhere that selects which is the active phono input? If the latter have you verified that switch is in the correct position and toggled it between the two to clear tarnish from the contacts?

Well I'm not really sure what the voltage rating is as the only copy of the original manual I have for the receiver is a poorly scanned copy of the original paper manuals that I got from HiFi Engine several years ago, so its hard to say what the numbers really were, but I was putting in what it looked like to me, unless there was a decimal point somewhere I wasn't seeing.

Yes the receiver has a Toggle Switch for "Phono 1" and "Phono 2" as it has the capability of having 2 different record players hooked up to it, (the ceramic phono input runs off of the "Phono 1" position on the phono input selector toggle switch which is what I was running it on.)

Oddly enough I took the receiver apart monkeyed around with it (checking all of the boards associated with that portion of the receiver for bad caps and cold solder joints on the wire connections and also replacing some burned out dial lamps) and then put the receiver back together and hooked everything back up and sure enough the ceramic phono input started working again.
Go figure.