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These are wierd British flavored Chinese made amps Peavey sells. They can be had under $500 and have 100 watts of EL-34 power. The preamp has both a high gain and low gain input and they kind of sound like a tricked out JCM 800 with their own mojo going.
Anyways the amp sounds pretty good with my SG and just for fun I dimed the master volume and the amp is blazing through a 5150 4x12 and I dial the texture control from class A to class B and then pop and no sound. I turn the knob back to class A and it works but not in class B.
Damn. I was afraid I blew the transformer.
I open the amp up and on the circuit boards are sevral small fuses. One fuse was blown. I replaced it and the amp works again.
Apparently these amps don't like the texture control to be fiddled with while going full out. They blow the fuse but Peavey on such a cheap amp didn't have to spend the money for the extra fuse holders on the boards but they did. It was a matter of pulling the chassis out and replacing a small fuse to get back into business, so these amps are pretty reliable. No problems since.
Anyways the amp sounds pretty good with my SG and just for fun I dimed the master volume and the amp is blazing through a 5150 4x12 and I dial the texture control from class A to class B and then pop and no sound. I turn the knob back to class A and it works but not in class B.
Damn. I was afraid I blew the transformer.
I open the amp up and on the circuit boards are sevral small fuses. One fuse was blown. I replaced it and the amp works again.
Apparently these amps don't like the texture control to be fiddled with while going full out. They blow the fuse but Peavey on such a cheap amp didn't have to spend the money for the extra fuse holders on the boards but they did. It was a matter of pulling the chassis out and replacing a small fuse to get back into business, so these amps are pretty reliable. No problems since.
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