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Re: Jack problems. Please help with advice...

6/10/2003 5:06 AM
Enzo	Re: Jack problems. Please help with advice... Sounds to me like you need to resolder the jacks to the circuit board or check the wiring. Older amps usually grounded their input jacks to the panel, so make sure there is a tight nut on each jack and anything that wants to ground to the panel has a clean surface to ground to. You described clasic symptoms of loss of ground at the input - hum, no signal, radio stations.

6/10/2003 5:06 AM

Enzo

Re: Jack problems. Please help with advice...

Sounds to me like you need to resolder the jacks to the circuit board or check the wiring. Older amps usually grounded their input jacks to the panel, so make sure there is a tight nut on each jack and anything that wants to ground to the panel has a clean surface to ground to. You described clasic symptoms of loss of ground at the input - hum, no signal, radio stations.

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Darren These jacks are origional jacks tha... -- 6/10/2003 1:40 PM