Beomaster 2400 Type 2902 - Canada Project First Opened Up

I plugged this new Beomaster 2400 unit in and checked out the lights on it to see if any were burned out.  It turns out that all of the lamps are functioning.

 

As promised I opened up this new Beomaster 2400 receiver to check the components inside.

The Bass, Treble and Balance slider controls look to be in good shape.

The slider controls on this Beomaster 2400 are a different style than I usually see.  I have seen these before but they have a round bar for the slide control to travel on instead of the usual flat bar.

 

The black plastic bridge that holds the slider control contacts is different due to the round bar that it attaches to. As a result of that difference these controls don't have the problem of the broken contact mounts that typically require a repair.

Now to take a look at the Beomaster 2400 indicator lamps. 

First, the volume control lamps. I can see that one of these lamps has been replaced in the past.
So this Beomaster 2400 has been worked on before.

Here are the lamps for the Bass, Treble and Balance indicators.

The indicator masks for these controls were is good shape but you can see on the underside of the red lens caps that there is a lot of fading due to heat from the incandescent lamps.  I usually replace the original lamps here with cooler operating LED lamps.  These three lamps are always on when the Beomaster is not in standby and are not vital to any circuitry in the Beomaster.  They simply are powered on and off when the Beomaster comes out of standby and goes into standby.

The last group of lamps are for the FM tuning indicator, FM stereo indicator and the selected audio source indicators (Phono, Tape, FM1, FM2, FM3, FM4 and FM5). There is also a red LED lamp for the standby mode indication.

These lamps do wire into Beomaster 2400 circuitry and factor into the operation of the circuits they are part of.

Now the restoration can be planned and implemented.
I start on that tomorrow.