LIP RIPPER
412 posts
Apr 05, 2011
1:49 PM
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She died. I was just practicing when it kind of cracked and quit for a moment. I stopped and fiddled with my mic cord, hit it again, it started to work then nothin! I started to smell something so I shut it off and unplugged it. Will a tube do this? It smelled more like hot plastic so I fear that it is deeper. I love this little amp. I picked it up at the pawn shop a couple of weeks ago. Brought it home, put a Sylvania 6v6gt and an RCA 12at7 in place of the chinese tubes and have been using daily for practice.
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MJ
283 posts
Apr 05, 2011
2:07 PM
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A visual inspection while unplugged is first thing. If you smelled hot plastic, look for the obvious..Possibly a speaker wire was resting against a hot tube. If you are lucky enough for that to be the problem, go out and buy a lottery ticket. If you are not tech savvy, bring it to a repair person. Good luck.
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LIP RIPPER
413 posts
Apr 05, 2011
2:57 PM
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Okay, I first changed the preamp tube which looked fine. I let it warm up for 30-40 seconds then tried it and it was a low volume fuzzy output then nothing. Same goes for the power tube. I just took it apart and cannot se where anything got that hot. It all looks stock and has never been apart. I think at this point I need to send it to someone who understands this flow of energy.
P.S. I got to wondering if I could've blown the speaker so I grabbed the ohm meter and it was 4 ohms. I thought well, can it ohm alright and be bad? I didn't think so. I hooked the speaker up to my Epi amp head and it did the same thing, cracked a little and that was it. I thought great that's all it is, a speaker. I walked over towards it and stepped on the splitter coming out of my delay pedal and there I found the problem.
Last Edited by on Apr 05, 2011 3:38 PM
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MJ
284 posts
Apr 05, 2011
4:02 PM
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Glad to see you found the problem and that it was minor. Sometimes oddball stuff happens, now go get that lottery ticket. :)
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