Rickenbacker TR35B issues

[J M Fahey]

Many amps "wake up stupid" through a bulb limiter, can NOT handle a load and behave as shorted.

So turn amp OFF, wait a few minutes for everything to discharge, turn it ON again with all controls on zero and NO load of any kind, neither speaker nor resistor.

Bulb limiter should blink (capacitors charging) and then almost turn off.

Check DC voltage at speaker out, if zero you can safely connect speaker and play at low volume, 1 or 2 Watts, table top radio volume, just to check everything works.

If so, you can plug amp straight into Mains, no limiter.

[DPM309]

It is working now! Never got the light limiter to light up at all but did get sound through is with an MP3 player. Plugged the bass in with the light limiter and got good sound. Plugged it directly into the mains and it seems to be working fine now. There was an extra 1/4" jack next to the extension jack connected to where the speaker mains connect and might have been shorting out the speakers, thus causing all of these problems. I removed and everything is working good.
Jon, JM Fahey, thanks for all of you help in getting this amp working.