The Roku Soundbridge Radio
The power supply to the radio
A couple of the "puffed" capacitors
Monday, November 30, 2009
New Project
My good friend, Chris Galardi, has finally moved back from Florida. Welcome home Chris...good to have you back! One of the things he found while unpacking was a non-working Roku Soundbridge R1000 radio. Pretty cool device. It connects to a wireless network to bring you free internet radio stations. Chris told me that it simply doesn't power up any longer and that it was mine if I wanted it. After graciously accepting this radio, I took it home to look at it. I did a little research on google for problems pertaining to this model of radio. Most of what I found pointed to a power supply issue. I was not able to find any schematics for the power supply so I was going to be flying by the seat of my pants with this. I opened up the unit (no easy task) and after an hour, I finally got to the power supply. I did find some puffed up capacitors. Those are definitely bad and can be caused by too much power or just faulty manufacturing. The google search said to replace them all. I have all but two in my stock and will need to order them. I will replace them with higher voltage rated caps. Hopefully, that will be the fix. Here are a few pics:
The Roku Soundbridge Radio
The power supply to the radio
A couple of the "puffed" capacitors
The Roku Soundbridge Radio
The power supply to the radio
A couple of the "puffed" capacitors
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Did you ever get the Roku to work?
Norman, I forgot I had this blog! It has been awhile since I have posted. I may try to find time to start updating again. In answer to your question, yes, after replacing the bad capacitors in the unit, it worked fine. I did that fix on approximately 5 other units and all have been working fine since. Thanks for your question!
Hi Stal,
What are the voltage one should expect out of the R1000 power supply?
Hi Unknown, It has been about 14 years since I have worked on those. I honestly don't recall the voltages. I quit working on them as the Roku site went down and did not stream music any more. However, I have heard that someone may have replaced it. If that is the case, I may start working on them again as I have a few left in my inventory. I do recall that in every instance of a power supply issue, I would always replace the electrolytic capacitors and that fixed it every time.
What were the specs of the replacement capacitors?
Interstellar Radio Station: I apologize for the late reply. Our ISP moved email accounts to another mail provider and it screwed everything up. I just found your email in a spam folder. I honestly don't recall the specs of the caps. We are talking a LONG time ago. I pretty much just found the puffed caps and replaced them with caps of a higher voltage. Hope that helps.
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