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Amp smells?
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:36 pm
Got home from work, turned my tube amp on standby to warm up while I ate dinner.
House randomly started to smell weird almost like chlorine. When look around my house and even the attic, didn’t see nothing. The smell was strong from my entertainment room and notice the standby light on my amp wasn’t on anymore and the smell was coming from the amp.
Before I open up the amp, any ideas on what just happened?
House randomly started to smell weird almost like chlorine. When look around my house and even the attic, didn’t see nothing. The smell was strong from my entertainment room and notice the standby light on my amp wasn’t on anymore and the smell was coming from the amp.
Before I open up the amp, any ideas on what just happened?
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Posted on 4/28/24 at 8:40 pm to The Dunder Mifflin
A capacitor on the board burned out. Need to do a cap job or buy a new amp.
Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:00 am to deeprig9
Bought my guitar cab and head on craigslist about six years ago for 400 bucks. An egnater rebel 30 with a black star cabinet. The amp is probably 15 years old if I had to guess. Would it be worth it just to buy a new amp Or get it repaired?
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 8:01 am
Posted on 4/29/24 at 5:15 pm to The Dunder Mifflin
If you know your way around the guts of an amp, by all means dive in. But you should probably hire a professional which is what I would do, if I really liked the amp.
This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 5:16 pm
Posted on 4/29/24 at 7:54 pm to deeprig9
I see where something got burnt, but I do know have the knowledge to know what it is that got burnt or even fix it.
Was my first tube amp, but might be a good time to look for something different. Only problem is trying to find somewhere with a good selection of amps to test out.
Was my first tube amp, but might be a good time to look for something different. Only problem is trying to find somewhere with a good selection of amps to test out.
Posted on 4/30/24 at 5:08 pm to The Dunder Mifflin
If you know the opening of Stairway to Heaven, find the closest Guitar Center.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 6:48 pm to The Dunder Mifflin
Burnt capacitor or resistor. I think someone said that already.
More concerning thing would be if something caused it. If the tubes are weak I think it can put extra stress on it. I think capacitors are supposed to last 10-20 years? Not sure of your situation.
If you wanted to get your hands dirty you could use a signal tester and go through the circuit and find the faulty part, but if you’ve never worked on an amp or circuit board before I wouldn’t touch it.
I’m a keys player, so I haven’t worked with amps, I’ll tell you personally that I’m inexperienced and I tried to fix / restore my Wurli and deeply regretted it because I went the whole way, refelting the keys, removing the speakers so I could spray paint the top… what should’ve been a $350 job turned into an $800 job. The circuit part was the easy part honestly.
More concerning thing would be if something caused it. If the tubes are weak I think it can put extra stress on it. I think capacitors are supposed to last 10-20 years? Not sure of your situation.
If you wanted to get your hands dirty you could use a signal tester and go through the circuit and find the faulty part, but if you’ve never worked on an amp or circuit board before I wouldn’t touch it.
I’m a keys player, so I haven’t worked with amps, I’ll tell you personally that I’m inexperienced and I tried to fix / restore my Wurli and deeply regretted it because I went the whole way, refelting the keys, removing the speakers so I could spray paint the top… what should’ve been a $350 job turned into an $800 job. The circuit part was the easy part honestly.
Posted on 5/1/24 at 11:00 pm to TN Tygah
I replaced the tubes about 4 years ago so the tubes shouldn’t be the problem (I’m guessing). It looks like what ever went out/burnt leaked some black oil like substance on a small part of the circuit board.
Had the amp on the kitchen table for the past two nights trying to read up on what could be the problem. But the wife told me to pick it up because the smell that came from the amp was still strong.
Read something that it could possibly be magnesium magnet leakage?
Had the amp on the kitchen table for the past two nights trying to read up on what could be the problem. But the wife told me to pick it up because the smell that came from the amp was still strong.
Read something that it could possibly be magnesium magnet leakage?
Posted on 5/2/24 at 11:26 am to The Dunder Mifflin
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Read something that it could possibly be magnesium magnet leakage?
Yikes.
Sounds like that’s a capacitor leaking electrolyte honestly.
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