Crate VC 5310 gone bad!!! Please help!!

[kawboy]

Hello everybody! I am new to this forum. I have a Crate VC 5310. The thing just quit on me in the middle of practice. The swithes are getting power and the tubes are glowing. The guitar has output, but i am getting nothing out of the amp all of a sudden. I took the rear panel off thinking that i would be able to see a fuse. I did'nt see one at all. If someone could give me some direction it would be greatly appriciated! Thank you for your time.

[conisat]

Hello everybody! I am new to this forum. I have a Crate VC 5310. The thing just quit on me in the middle of practice. The swithes are getting power and the tubes are glowing. The guitar has output, but i am getting nothing out of the amp all of a sudden. I took the rear panel off thinking that i would be able to see a fuse. I did'nt see one at all. If someone could give me some direction it would be greatly appriciated! Thank you for your time.

Welcome Kawboy, firt thing first Saftey, tube amps can take a long time to discharge there energy even once you have turned off and un-pluged your amp it is still live. May i ask have you any experiance in amp building/maintenance?.
Before you start poking around inside unplug from mains and leave unplugged!!! switch the amps power and standby switches to the on position (make sure its still unplugged) this will drain the caps hence making it safe to work on, check with a volt meter circuit is fully drained. Try finding the amp schematic on the net it will help.
you will need a multi meter as a minimum for fault finding. Let us know when you are ready and we will gladly guide you.

[Suburbanite]

Check out the effects loop jack, and the channel changer jack, both of mine were dodgy and caused me no end of grief with odd problems like noise cutting out or going up and down in volume or just not making noise