Hi and thanks to all the good fellas who will try top give me a hand with this issue I have. To start, this is the unit we are talking about:
https://www.crownaudio.com/en/products/dci-4-300n.This audio amplifier is a 300W class D amplifier with blu link connection, I have this at my job's place, as we use them to power our audio circuits. Lately one of tese unit stopped to work and it went completely dead, from the backside the ethernet LEDs were OFF, no connection to the network, on the front side the POWER LED started blinking, in their manual they say this means the AC line voltage dropped or has risen 10%, but I don't think this tells you the real story, I replaced this unit with another one which is working on the same AC line with no issues so...
To get to the point I started to troubleshoot this unit, I remember 1 year ago another unit (same as this one) had the same symptoms and the amplifier board was replaced. I had a look inside and probed around with a DMM and an LCR meter, The power supply is a switching one, The voltage was present on the PSU board until the diode rectifiers (after the switching transformer), the switching frequency is in the order of 20KHz. After this part the is some smd components near a chip with 32 pins, I haven't done any research but my guess this is a sort of logic controller that can sense if there is a fault on the other boards (amplifier board/ethernet board), and stop the voltage to being sent to these boards, might be a correct guess?
If interested I can take some photos to give better ideas, in general what would you recommend to test? I wanted to the power transistor but the heatsink is soldered with pins and they are hard to be de-soldered (much pain), I don't get if the temperature of the iron is too low or I don't use enough flux..
one newbie question: is it possible that while using the DMM in continuity check mode(mine beeps for 30 ohms or lower) a capacitor tested in circuit would beep continuously when I probe across it with the DMM leads?