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What Have I done? Shorted an amp?

I had two amps that were on (I know) and while moving one speaker connection to another amp, the speaker cables touched the other amplifiers case, sparked, and the amp that was touched, turned itself off, one of a pair Jeff Rowland Model 7, DAMN!

Now, it powers on but I get no sound coming out?

What have I done? At 140 lbs, I don't want to ship this thing around, if it is an easy thing?

HELP!!

Stressed, frustrated, feeling lame, and back to mono,

Dan
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rwwear
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Have you contacted Roland Research?
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porschecab OP
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Thanks for all the insight and info. I did try Jeff Rowland Friday AM as SOON as I woke up and they were closed, they take Fridays off, nice.

After talking to a couple of electricians, trying to find a matching fuse, they gave me 2 8 amp, 250v, fast something fuses. I popped these in, and it works, no problems.

Yeah, I won't be doing the swapperoo with anything on again.............

Thanks,
Dan
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I did something very similar once. I turned my system off when I moved my speakers but I didnt recheck the tightness of the connection after I moved them. I had only moved them a foot but thanks to the weight of the ridiclous mit network boxes it slipped off and touched the other connection. With a loud electrical crack and a cloud of smoke I burnt out a 135 lb amplifier.

The company didnt charge me a penny to fix it but it sure sucked packing that thing up and shipping it.
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