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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:56 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
Fifteen watts will still likely drive you (or others) from the house......

Arjay


Yep. My 12w 5E3 drives my band from the house. :lol:

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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:59 pm
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Rhust wrote:
you misunderstood... it's been 15 years since my last gig(god it doesn't seem that long ago though)

since then it's been all apartment/bedroom playing

hell for a couple years there, my amp wasn't even plugged in, I just used headphones and a line6 pod type thing...

this has not been a decision made lightly... I've tossed this around for years, not days... I love the clean tone, but never turning it up to 3+ isn't exactly hearing all of the amp either...

I picked up a Kustom 15w not long back, all tube, but completely different... character not the cleanest tone, but not real dirty either...


Ah, I understand now. I don't blame you then. My SRRI has sat with the cover on it for the better part of 2 years now. The only reason it's seen any use is that I've had to willfully get it out and plug it in for a while. Eventually you begin to lose the internal battle to justify keeping it.

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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 4:02 pm
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Rhust wrote:
I've also seen schematics for building a 5e3 amp with a VVR master volume setup... 12 watts of tweed at low volumes... maybe I'll build one of those eventually...


Or an attenuator! I recently got a Weber MiniMASS 50 and it's really tamed my 5E3. I love to get my drive from the amp but having amps with no master volume on them really makes that a challenge. I think the attenuator cost me around $120. Money well spent.

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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:33 pm
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For what it's worth, you should buy an attenuator capable of handling twice the wattage of your amp IF you intend to crank it often. Because when the amp is maxed out, it's putting out more than its wattage rating, sometimes as much as twice that amount. Same concept as when choosing speakers to pair with the amp. An attenuator with the same wattage rating should be sufficient at lower volumes.

BUT! You've come to this decision over the course of 15 years, so power to ya!


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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2012 9:39 am
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demaria.daniel wrote:
For what it's worth, you should buy an attenuator capable of handling twice the wattage of your amp IF you intend to crank it often. Because when the amp is maxed out, it's putting out more than its wattage rating, sometimes as much as twice that amount. Same concept as when choosing speakers to pair with the amp. An attenuator with the same wattage rating should be sufficient at lower volumes.

BUT! You've come to this decision over the course of 15 years, so power to ya!


if it was a 5e3 type sound when cranked, or JTM, or something really fat and crunchy then I could try to justify an attenuator costing as much as a new amp... but being perfectly honest with what a play, where I play, and how I play, something like a blackstar, or even a fender mustang 2(eventhough it's not tube, it sounds really good at low volumes)... something I can dial up the gain, and keep master volume low makes more sense...

if the 1 watt, 50th anniversary edition JCM(or even the JMP or JTM with an attenuator) wasn't so expensive, I'd probably go for that and have zero regrets


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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:28 am
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I just pulled the numbers off my transformers...

the numbers on the first transformer (right side one, by preamp tubes ) is 125A6A under that I think it says "606" but I'm not sure

the other transformer (the LARGE one at the far left) the numbers appear to be 125P26A
and below that, 606402


what do these numbers translate to?


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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:53 am
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The correct numbers for the Tremolux trannies are:

Power: 125P26A

Output: 125A6A

Choke: 125C3A

The "125" P/N prefix denotes the old pre-CBS inventory ID system used by the Fender Electric Instrument Company (newer FMI P/N's are formatted as "022XXX").

The "606XXX" number is the EIA code that indicates who made the component -- in this case, Woodward-Schumacher (which is correct for the era), and when.

Thus, 606402 translates to the 2nd week of 1964. Your other trannies should be similarly marked.

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Post subject: Re: doing it this time, selling my 64 tremolux-price check
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:38 am
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you are the man! that's awesome info..... thanks!


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