Power Amplifier Repair

[Jazz P Bass]

If you feel the desire to work on amplifiers, solid state or tube, these links are must reads.
Electricity can kill you.
Hazardous-voltage primer

[J M Fahey]

Incredibly useful post.
Reading and answering some questions about it should be mandatory on *any* hands-on building, servicing or modding Forum
Thanks.
PS: I have been tickled by as low as 24VDC , when covered in perspiration on a very hot and humid summer working on a basement which should have been labelled "Sauna".
It´s not a typo, 24 VDC from a storage battery .

[Jazz P Bass]

9 volt battery

What?
Did you not ever test a 9 Volt battery with your tongue when you where a kid?
My take on the links was 12 mas of current can stop your heart.
Kinda scarey.
At the same time it teaches you to respect electricity.
It must have been a hoot when the first experimenters where messing with this stuff.
"Hey! What's that smell?"
"It's o/k. Just my flesh"

[Enzo]

I quit tongue testing the things decades ago. My meter is handy.

And there are higher voltage batteries that resemble the 9v ones. You DON'T want to tongue a 45v or 90v battery.

45 volt battery - Shop sales, stores & prices at TheFind.com

RCA B battery 90v