Hi,
I've been working on this old Marshall for quite some time. It keeps blowing it's 1 amp H.T. when the amp is turned on cold. I've replaced the tubes and all the filter caps with no luck. The output transformer seems fine. I've put it up on an oscilliscope and the waveform doesn't show anything odd. If I bring the amp up slowly on a variac it works fine. I can play it for an hour, turn it off, turn it on again and it still works. The next day when it's cold I turn on the power, wait a minute, hit the standby and the fuse blows. The only thing I noticed is when I was checking the pin voltages with no tubes in it the plates were at 560 Volts. I'm wondering if I have a shorted choke. I've never had a bad one before but that might explain the high voltages and why there is a surge at turn on. Any help would be appreciated.
I've been working on this old Marshall for quite some time. It keeps blowing it's 1 amp H.T. when the amp is turned on cold. I've replaced the tubes and all the filter caps with no luck. The output transformer seems fine. I've put it up on an oscilliscope and the waveform doesn't show anything odd. If I bring the amp up slowly on a variac it works fine. I can play it for an hour, turn it off, turn it on again and it still works. The next day when it's cold I turn on the power, wait a minute, hit the standby and the fuse blows. The only thing I noticed is when I was checking the pin voltages with no tubes in it the plates were at 560 Volts. I'm wondering if I have a shorted choke. I've never had a bad one before but that might explain the high voltages and why there is a surge at turn on. Any help would be appreciated.
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