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Long story short, Reckless Fairing, audio professionally installed, some dumb cell phone texting batch ran a stop sign causing me to lock up, dumped her hard and rashed the **** outta the fairing. Had it patched up (lousy job) and painted. Decided to go back to the Heritage roots, pulled the audio gear out, my SD 800.4 EVOX had a rattle, took it apart and found this. Funny thing is even after the crash the system was as loud as it was on day one, never skipped a beat.
Thoughts?
That's a capacitor. Looks like there are 4 sets of inductors and caps down the left side and this cap is from the lowest one. There is likely one set on each of the speaker outputs to decouple RF from the amp feedback loop (stops noise on the speaker outputs, speaker wiring, speaker cross-overs etc. from messing with the amp).
Without a schematic, this is a guess but it makes sense. Take it to an electronics repair shop and see if they can solder it back in place. Depending on the PCB (it's probably multi-layered) and what's on the other side and nearby it might not be possible to repair as it's a delicate job.
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