fEEL THE fOOKIN' fury!

MetalManiac

MetalManiac

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I just did a recap on this. Very painstaking, especially replacing the multi-section can capacitor.
I busted off a pin on one of the tube sockets , but was able to replace the pin , casue wiring in a new tube socket is a enormous hassle.

Anyway

Its a l nice looking amp, I wasn't abl;e to repiar it propely with just the recAP.and probably sounds decent when working properly.

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oh lord, now you started working on amps?

Jer, I'm not gonna say "I hope you don't give yourself a massive electrical shock" because I know it'll happen. It's just a matter of time.....
 
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CTN said:
oh lord, now you started working on amps?

Jer, I'm not gonna say "I hope you don't give yourself a massive electrical shock" because I know it'll happen. It's just a matter of time.....
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thats not gonna happen- ever ( again). Almost killed myself with a pure tube class a 12 watt Leak Audio hi fi amp 20 years ago. Your amp guitar amp isnt "calss A", if it gets much beyond 12 watts, and even then it has to be built like a nuclear reactor. 5 watts maybe. For all intents and purposes you can't get a tube amp to run that much current. I think the super expensive solid state Krells and Levinsons top out at 25 watts .
I got a jolt of pure Class A 12 watts; was sick for weeks.
 
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MetalManiac said:
thats not gonna happen- ever ( again). Almost killed myself with a pure tube class a 12 watt Leak Audio hi fi amp 20 years ago. Your amp guitar amp isnt "calss A", if it gets much beyond 12 watts, and even then it has to be built like a nuclear reactor. 5 watts maybe. For all intents and purposes you can't get a tube amp to run that much current. I think the super expensive solid state Krells and Levinsons top out at 25 watts .
I got a jolt of pure Class A 12 watts; was sick for weeks.
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This post reminds me how much of a fool you are. Really...do you even know that all of what you said in this post is just not true, makes no sense and proves that you have no clue what you are doing/talking ab out??? Also, this thread reminds me of why I try not to buy gear online anymore...seems every jack ass with a soldering gun thinks they can work on stuff and more often than not it's some idiot that does FAR more harm than good...
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
This post reminds me how much of a fool you are. Really...do you even know that all of what you said in this post is just not true, makes no sense and proves that you have no clue what you are doing/talking ab out??? Also, this thread reminds me of why I try not to buy gear online anymore...seems every jack ass with a soldering gun thinks they can work on stuff and more often than not it's some idiot that does FAR more harm than good...
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Okay, then whats the truth?, and yes, I was a complete idiot undertaking this task- had no business, but at least Im gonna leave my Ampeg Mercury alone and pass it on to someone else. Theres no schematics for the Alamo Fury, I've searched hi and low. I probably should have found a compatable multi section cap- I kind of made a mess, and well, not a good job. Hopefully I can pass it on to someone who can "fix" what I did to it, or whatever is wrong with it, or just hang onto it till someone who know what they are doing can fix it for me. I'm pretty sure I got all the values right, but IDK, I screwed something up- its for sure worse than before I started.
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
This post reminds me how much of a fool you are. Really...do you even know that all of what you said in this post is just not true, makes no sense and proves that you have no clue what you are doing/talking ab out??? Also, this thread reminds me of why I try not to buy gear online anymore...seems every jack ass with a soldering gun thinks they can work on stuff and more often than not it's some idiot that does FAR more harm than good...
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Can you find it in your heart to be a little more polite? Really a little over the top.
 
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the guy who invented fire said:
Why?

What has Jerry ever done to be polite to anyone on the forum, and for sure to me...he's as rude as they come.

Plus it's not like I said anything that wasn't true...
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Thats exactly right. I have been rude, even since Ive been back a couple times. I've been told to be nice here, which is the right thing to do anyhow, so either I change or go bye bye.
Just about the class a thing; was basing it off Audio Hi-fi, but I know as littel about it as TGWIF- lets face it, were not engineers, and even then , the top people are few and far between.

its true that in Audio, you dont go beyond 25 watts PURE Class A. The mammoth 50.000-100.000 dollar Krell and Levinson (and others) unit Hi-Fi Audio monoblocks ,weighing in at probably close to a hundred pounds each run at 25 watts, and are commonly used to bi-amp tweeters or triamp mids and tweeters in uber high end systems.

The "Leak" tube hi-fi amp I mentioned from when i got electrocuted 20 + years ago , was as big or bigger than any tube guitar amp, had massive iron, and Huge Genelex KT66 tubes if I recall, and was 12 watts of pure Class A.
Likewise, an old Altec Theatre amp- enormous, and huge and heavy, and ran , I think 10 watts only of pure class A before it clipped into A-b.

SO I recall the audio engineers saying that 25 watts pure class A was maximum you could get from an amp. Maybe guitar amp circuits are different, but I can tell you this; ma 1000 dollar guitar amp, or maybe any FAIK, that advertise '30 watts class a' are a total joke it would appear to be.

lets get some of the cognezenti in here to try and set things straight.
 
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MetalManiac said:
I think the super expensive solid state Krells and Levinsons top out at 25 watts .
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Wrong. Krell has made monster class-A amplifiers over the years that were rated at hundreds of watts per channel into eight ohms. Later generations have been the most powerful, and they achieve what they do through plateau biasing.
 
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