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    blew up my peavey xxx need help

    i have a peavey xxx 60watt 1-12 combo amp.my amp made a loud pop, blew a tube and then no sound came out.the lights still came on though. i turned it off and retubed it. then a very faint sound would come out of it. today i went to radio shack with all the fuses, got new ones put em in and now sound comes out of it...but its nowhere near as loud as it was before it popped and the clean channel is all distorted and all the channels sorta cut off when i hit a chord. i changed 5 fuses in the amp, are there more in there somewhere? what elses might be wrong with it? thanx for any help
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    Sounds like you may have blown a screen resistor on one side or your signal isn't present on one side. Do you have any electronic experience or own a meter ?
    KB

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      no this is my first tube amp, ive been using modeling amps and ss amps. i have very little electronic experience and dont own meter.
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      • #4
        Originally posted by thedarkestsorrow View Post
        no this is my first tube amp, ive been using modeling amps and ss amps. i have very little electronic experience and dont own meter.
        +1 on the screen grid resistor. Unfortunately if your not handy with a meter,soldering and most importantly draing the caps its ti8me for a tech. Bob
        "Reality is an illusion albeit a very persistant one " Albert Einstein

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        • #5
          Then see a technician, I agree with KB, it sounds like you haver at least a burnt open screen resistor - the result of the failed tube.
          Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

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          • #6
            thanx for the help guys! is it a cheap fix? anyone know a good tech in the pittsburgh southwestern pa area?
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            • #7
              Originally posted by thedarkestsorrow View Post
              thanx for the help guys! is it a cheap fix? anyone know a good tech in the pittsburgh southwestern pa area?
              Shouldn't be that much in the scheme of things to replace a screen resistor but your if your tech is worth their salt they will troubleshoot it properly to determine what actually needs repairing (and let you know before they rack up too much time on it). There's usually something like a 1/2 hour pro-forma charge you have to pay either way for getting it on the bench to determine the cause (unless you have some as-yet-unheard-of amp repair insurance, in which case you'd probably have to forfiet some as-yet-unheard-of no-claims bonus or other insurance overhead, which amounts to the same thing as paying the tech to have a look)
              Building a better world (one tube amp at a time)

              "I have never had to invoke a formula to fight oscillation in a guitar amp."- Enzo

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              • #8
                And you can go on the Peavey web site and use their service finder.
                Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

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