Born2bwire
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I finally schlepped together something that's reminiscent of what Tangent has on his website (kudos!!!) that's a CMoy, but of course the Audio Gods aren't with me and it's not working. I was lucky enough to be able to borrow a Fluke Multimeter from the ECE department and it seems that the negative voltage side of the amp is grounded. The positive side carries the entire voltage when compared to ground. I've reheated the solder points and tried to clean them up, but this actually caused a complete grounding (before I was able to get .814 V difference). The Fluke has a nice capacitance detector and a continuity detector. The continuity confirms that the negative lead is in short with the ground and the capacitance measurer needs a good connection to get a measurement, but I think that the power capacitor on the negative side is a dud, I can't get a reading from it. Since I've been having a hard time getting the multimeter to correctly read the capacitance, I was wondering if a dead capacitor would result in a short or other behavior that would cause my problem?