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Re: Something's not right here...

2/13/2000 8:29 AM

Carlo

Re: Something's not right here... quote: "I am not a tech, nor have I gone to school for electronics...my neighbor gave me an old TV that was not well, the transformer inside of it has the same number of wires with close to the same colors as the one in the marshall...When I tried it in the amp, I heard a crackling sound (volume down) and I think I saw some smoke...Well I tried it again late last night to see where the smoke is coming from, this time there was a loud buzzing from the speaker as well as from around the transformer...I put the old transformer back in and the amp sounds worse than before (lots of crackling). I thought it might be the pots, so I ran to radio shack and grabbed a few audio pots and tried them...I think I'm going to have to start changing resistors until the noise goes away, my next question is does it matter if I use 1/4 or 1/8 watt ones?"     At best, you're going to ruin the amp. At worst, you're going to kill yourself. Joke or not, after reading through these posts, I must reiterate, take this amp to a qualified tech.     Anyone else smell a lawsuit?     Carlo

 

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Mark Knapp I second that emotion -- 2/13/2000 3:29 PM