Egnater

[g1]

Turning off the power switch should do the same as disconnecting it.

[Valvehead]

just tried that stuff--

assuming the caps are in the IEC ,,, i have a bad PT

[strato56]

There are two primary windings, do you measure a difference between them.Maybe only one is shorted.

[J M Fahey]

The amp is dead even if only one winding (no matter how unimportant) is shorted.
They are *all* in parallel, magnetically, and that's enough.

[rf7]

I got one with the exact same issue - shorted PT.

[drewl]

Wow,
Got one of these with a shorted power trans primary.
Seems to be pretty common, I've found several instances of people having this problem on the webz.

Hopefully for the customer it's still under warranty or maybe they'll cut him a break.

[Jazz P Bass]

Me too.

2009 build date.

Bad power transformer.

[Valvehead]

I never did fix the amp....sold it as-is .

Now I know.

Anyone know the price for a new pt for these ?

[Jazz P Bass]

I got one for a Renegade.

130.00 + freight.

[J M Fahey]

FWIW *all* original PT are poorly built.
I know one official service guy which had 13 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! new (warranty repair) amps waiting .... and next week he had 19 !!!!!
After more than a month delay from Egnater swearing that "new ones were on the way" he was sent more of the same, but look at this: with clumsily drilled (not punched at a metal shop, just drilled in a bench drill press by hand) holes in the metal covers for ventilation, and a 12V PC type fan, to cool them, with instructions on how to feed that fan from rectified filament voltage.
As klunky and improvised solution as can be!!!!
Similar to some plane company answering to planes crashing by supplying each passenger with a parachute !!!!!

[Jazz P Bass]

I asked Egnater if they 'fixed' whatever the problem was with the original tranny.

They denied that they ever had a problem.

Hmph.

[lowell]

Yikes

[Leo_Gnardo]

In the news: Bruce Egnater just joined The Amp Garage a day or 2 back. Hasn't got much to say so far. Must be busy looking for working PT's. Just flogging his amp building "school." It don't cost nothin' to look:

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