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Re: Eyelets
 8/17/2000 5:05 PM |
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dutch | Re: Eyelets
Speedo-- There's another good reason besides ease-of-assembly to use that push-back cloth-insulated wire.... It stays where you put it (thanks to the solid wire), and it doesn't melt like plastic-insulated wire does, so it can be run under the eyelet board without shorting out the first time the amp warms up a bit. IMO, this is the biggest difference between the SF and BF amps. UL said "no more cloth wire" (presumably because it's a "fire hazard"...), Fender switched over, discovered that they would now have to reroute the circuits to prevent shorts (and probably fires...), and their nice, oscillation-free layout went straight to hell. So, to "fix" the problem, they had to add all those parasitic-supressing caps we all know and hate.... C ya, Dutch | |
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| Bruce q{UL said "no more cloth wire" (pre... -- 8/17/2000 8:07 PM Carl Z So it doesn't melt? Ummm, that wir... -- 8/17/2000 10:55 PM |