Fried ampeg...anyone?

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I'm playing guitar last night (first time in a while) and my amp starts cutting out.

I stop and check all my connections, cords are all good, so I plug back in and begin my onslaught of noise once more.
It cuts out again, and the green light that usually lights when standby is turned off is not illuminated.

The "power" light is still on, tubes still glow, but nothing....

I truly wanted to hurl it out the window.
This ampeg has been nothing but a curse since the second year I owned it.

I thought there might be a fuse (could'a sworn I saw one) but there is not.
Tubes are around/about a year old, but I do not play very often, and even less often through the Ampeg....

Time to buy a new amp?
Fried ampeg...anyone?

Ugh, now I have to play through the crate, or GT2 into PA :(
 
when you play through it, can you hear what you are playing rattling the tubes? (don't do this for long) If you can, it's your speaker connection/ impedance selector.
 
poor ampeg

so is this the little ampeg u got at sound check sooooo many years ago?
it just may be time to bury the poor thing. so many years in the cellar! what kind of life is that anyway
 
Yes mick, none other than the infamously poorly designed VT120 from soundcheck, which was supposedly new, but did not have stock tubes :eek:

I hooked up a 4X12, and the self-contained speaker (combo amp), neither worked. I tried the 4X12 with a different cord also.


I'd bury it...but....
How am I to play a funeral dirge?
Through a Crate?
Blasphemy!




Where the hell do you find pricing info on Mesa's?
 
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Ther's probably at least one fuse inside the chassis. Sounds like you have a loose connection or bad switch, though. A fuse wouldn't cause intemittent problems. Sounds like it's time to bring it to the doctor. Good luck
 
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