Just aquired a pair of Aerius i. Panels don't seem to work at all on both. Should be an adventure, have many years in stereo and just finished freshening up a pair of IMF Mk3 studio monitors which may be in my top 5 fav speakers. Now to figure out how to disassemble these little logans...
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Lightloopy
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Welcome and good luck in your project!
Many ML esl's out there, I'm surprised there aren't more discussion on diy refurbishing the panels. Any suggestions, links?
Our DIY section has a few threads, but this one will give you the gist of what you are up against: Repanelling ML Clarity's
In general, if the current panels are not working at all, it typically because of (in order of likelihood):
In general, if the current panels are not working at all, it typically because of (in order of likelihood):
- The connector between the ESL step-up board and the panel is loose, disconnected.
- The wires from the connector to the panel itself have become damaged, one or more wires detached from the panel itself.
- This can be tricky to spot, as the wire will look like it's connected, but there is no electrical bridge due to something pulling away or interfering.
- Something wrong with the AC supply to the ESL energizer board (broken 'music sense' circuit is a possibility).
- Jumper the music sense to force the power-up.
- Check for burnt diodes and other 'catastrophic electrical event' (e.g lightning hit) side effects.
- check the output wires are well-connected
- Something wrong with the high-pass XO or the step-up transformer is blown
- If you have a signal at the inputs to the transformer, and nothing on the output, it's fried.
- Someone took off the back panel with the XO / Energizer, and forgot to reconnect one or more wires. I'm guilty of this one once
Hey thanks much guys! Ill use johathans checklist first.
