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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:10 pm
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windwalker9649 wrote:
Two days ago, I traded an Egnater Tweaker for a Deluxe Hot Rod. It worked fine for those 2 days. Today I came home from work and turned it on. I strummed a few chords & it died.


Why not just ask for your Egnater Tweaker back ? If he is willing to pay half of the repair bill he may just trade you back. That's what I'd try to do. JMHO.



I would have never dumped the Egnater for a HRD amp. I went the other way around. The Egnaters are fine amps and are developing a huge loyal following. The thing I found out about the Egnater line is that there are literally thousands of tonal variations and those Celestion speakers need a decent amount of time to break in. My Rebel sounded great right out of the box, but downright incredible after the speakers were broken in. That really goes for all speakers. Most people jump the gun when to comes to speakers.
Unlike many amps, the switches on the Egnaters actually do something and aren't just there for decoration. You need time to dial in what works for you. After a year and a half, I'm still finding new variations. Every time I buy another guitar, I start all over again.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:38 pm
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Try giving advice instead of attacking people who do.


Bill has helped to repair more amps on this forum via "internet troubleshooting" than you ever will sitting at your bench.

I'd hold my water if I were you.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:55 pm
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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:34 am
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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 2:21 pm
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Blimey nice eh, poor guy gets flamed just for asking a question! as for the insult slinging thats not neccessary either.

In windwalkers defence he never said the fuse didnt blow the second time he tried it and to be fair after working as an electrician for more than 30 years trying a replacement fuse when one blows is quite normal.
Easy to be wise after the event and say you should have pulled the o/p tubes, fuses sometimes fail (especially quick blow fuses) due to age even though no real fault has caused em to.

Just my opinion, like most others here.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:00 pm
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Al 87 wrote:
Blimey nice eh, poor guy gets flamed just for asking a question! as for the insult slinging thats not neccessary either.

In windwalkers defence he never said the fuse didnt blow the second time he tried it and to be fair after working as an electrician for more than 30 years trying a replacement fuse when one blows is quite normal.
Easy to be wise after the event and say you should have pulled the o/p tubes, fuses sometimes fail (especially quick blow fuses) due to age even though no real fault has caused em to.

Just my opinion, like most others here.

... Al


Tell me, as an electrician with 30 years experience, do you routinely replace blown fuses without first trying to determine why they blew? Do you know anything about troubleshooting vaccum tube guitar amplifiers? Most of the statements made in this thread were from people with many years experience in tube amplifiers and are accepted troubleshooting procedures. You want to replace fuses willy nilly without troubleshooting first? Be my guest. You won't do it in my house or with my amp. By the way, I received my electrical engineering degree in 1976 when tubes were still quite common.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:18 pm
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By the way, I received my electrical engineering degree in 1976 when tubes were still quite common.


......And I received my First Class Radio-Telegraphy Technician's License with an endorsement for radar and IFF systems from the Federal Communications Commission in 1979.

Face it, Bill -- you and I don't know jack.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:38 pm
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Again, I needed to make sure it was the output transf. I didn't throw it on just to watch it spark, I couldn't tell with how the back panel is afixed if was the tranny,or in the chassis, in which it would have been fujbar anyway. I dudnt really see sparks, it was a flashing light, so I turned it on for less than a secind to see where the light was coming from. The. Fuse blew,a nd tranny subsiquently, because the kid NEVER replaced or biased the power tubes. Upon futher looking into it today, I see he had replaced the fuse with a slow blow instead of fast. So he must have been blowing fuses because of a bad power tube, and instead of getting the tubes replaced and biased, he put a slow blow fuse, like people who put pennies in fuse boxes so they didn't have to keep buying fuses.

As for asking for my amp back instead of having him paying half, he wasn't going to do it. He didn't plan on doing anything, leaving me w/ no recourse, this is also why "I got lawyers involved" as was previusly psted in a smug fashion.

Its like a forum filled w/ Jack Blacks character from High Fidelity. BTW, bluesky, why no response on the post where the kid was asking about his buzzing and I told him to stop using plated strings, and you chimed in with I've never heard this while theory on plated strings anywhere before, on any forum, its rediculouse. It has nothing to do with pureor nickel plated strings, told the kid to ignore the pure vs plated. You said, in a very patronizing way the he just had a bad set of strings, replace them and it will go away." Aftger someone posted that plated strings do make the klanginng noise tha t I mentioned, and all of a sudden, your posts on the ussue vanished?" What happened? No response to that? BTzw, he put pure nickel, and it fixed his problem. Hunility and accepting you may not know it all isn't a bad thing. And don't ever try to shame me with your personal issues when I question your pompous comments. Its no wonder all the members that I knew from thjis form arnt on anymore except for once in a while. Theyh all moved to other forums. You may "have helped more people on the forum. Regarding amps than I ever did on my bench, but I helped a lot of people with their guitar issues. Only difference is I don't let everyone know when I do.


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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:04 pm
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You aren't worth wasting my time with anymore. You are truly clueless. Buh-Bye.

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:10 pm
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Consider this a cheap lesson. Don't use fuses for "troubleshooting", and stay away from amps, seriously you can get hurt doing as you've done. Even if we don't like you, we don't want you hurt. (I think that we like you though)

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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 11:59 am
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It wasn't done for trouble shooting the first time, I thought the fuse just went bad. The kid who had the amp obviouslt didn't take care of it. The forst indication was the way he had the power cord, as well as guitar straps and cables stored in the rear cavity. The 1st thing I told him was to NEVER storethings back there, it seemed like itwent in one ear aned out the other. I have all my amps plugged into a Monster surge protector because whoever redid the elecgtrical wiring in my apartment was a hack. The lightbulbs blow out evgery few months (ones that are supposed to last 1o years) and power fluctuates. I plugged the amp into a regular outlet because a guy had just showed up, I was giving him a Timmy OD, I built a custom pedalboard for him (the best 1 I built so far, I put 2 vgoodoo labs power supplies under the board, along with a clamp to put a clean boost,under the board to raise the output a couple decibels because his chain had a good deal of volume back)0 I put in a Mod Tone clean boost, he wanted a timmy, but didn't want to wait 7 months. I have several tim and timmys for peoples boards they already own (most of the pedalboardbusiness is just making their existing boards better, or ordering boards for them from Pedaltrain, trailertrash, etc. This was the 1st one I had made for me to my specs from a local sheet metal/machine shop, I need to get them made for less $, since usually just replacing their cheap patch cables with ones I make from cutting long lenghths of cable (fulltone sent me 20ft of their new cables for nothing for me to try, but most of the time, boards with 10-15 pedals is close to $200 just for the cables). Anyways, he traded me a HBE Frostbite flanger for the timmy. I hastely just plugged the amp into the wall instead of the surge protector so hecould try it quicklym fuses. Blow in things in my place all the time, so I heardthe crackling (which other things do from time to time anyways. Sohistory would lead me to thinkit was just another surge problem, so I replaced the fuse. Thenit sparked, and i it blew again. So I pit another in so I could turn it on for a half second so I could see where the sparks came from.
I have a real issue with this formu over the last couple years. People, usually people new to gear ask questions that most of us know by heart. The comments to the persons questions have grown more , na d more patronizing, and insulting. Not everyone knows what others onthe boardknow, and isee such hostility in the posts, it pisses me off. Especially when theOP never gets a straight answer, usually the responses are just, font do it again. It scares newbies from wanting to post questions, and its usually yhe same people that respond in that smug way.

Very often, I see a question aswered with just passive aggresive comments, so I end up PM'ing the OP to answertheir questions, & there area lot of people who've used my suggestions to great results, and thank. Me for treating them decently, not telling other members to "pull up a chairr and get some popcorn". If you can't answer the questions, then don't, but don't try to makethe poster feel like an idiot for 'wating your time with such 'stupid' questions. Its also the sameposters who post answers that they act like their answers are gosple, & previous suggestions are stupid. But when their answer proves to be wrong, and the other 'stupid'answers prove to be right, all of a sudden the poster who gave the insulting answer is nowhere to be found on that post. Bot even man enough to say 'hey, I was wrong'. They just move onto other posts and repeat the same passive aggresive insulting posts, that still don't give any answers.
So if I come across as a jerk, its on purpose, because some membersneed tohear it. Hindsight is 20/20, using that as a way to make others look like fools is not only unproductive, it takes away the benefits of this forum. I don't know everything, but I know a lot about a few things. So when someone insults me, then uses some personal issue to try to make me look like a jerk, I have no pity, and Ino longer care to hear their advice.
While its not there yet, this forum is starting to resemble other guitar forums that consider itself to be 'ultimate'. Which is filled with 14 year old bullies(a word I'm gettingsick of, especially when certainn luchmeat dresswearing performers wanttomake a hate crime; yeah that a great idea, let a 10 year old kid gegt convicted of federal hate crimes before they get out of middle school, that's for another time though).

In closing, please; if I or anyone else doesn't have anything. Constructive to say on an issue, don't say anything. Not being 100% sure of an answer, but having a possible answer is fine. But obviously if doing something caused damaged, I'm pretty sure they won't repeat it, they don't need 6 members telling[ them that what they did was dumb. Not all of us are as genius as others. Try to remember that before posting an arrogant, unhelpful response.


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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:03 pm
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You aren't worth wasting my time with anymore. You are truly clueless. Buh-Bye.

Thank god for that. What happened? I point out the last arrogant, and incorrect answer you gave to someoe elses question, and you take your ball and go home. I assure you, I'm not clueless, but I admit tha ti don't know everything, can you,


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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:29 pm
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bluesky636 wrote:
You aren't worth wasting my time with anymore. You are truly clueless. Buh-Bye.



From Bossblueskid, in a PM;

WINDWALKER; Your knowledge is amazing and I've been rereading your advice on many of my posts and wanted to thank you for your accurate suggestions dude. Thank you again.


This is just one of several PM messages sent to me after I HELPED THEM with questions and problems. I have several more if you want to read them . I don't give advice for any other reason than to help them because I need help from time to time. You gave me no help, just comments attaccking me. So if you don't want to answer any of my posts, I consider it a good thing. Ill forward all of them if youwant. But I may do it wrong because according to you I'm "clueless".


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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:32 pm
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And theonly persons time who was wasted with your posts were mine. And don't worry about from me, I know how tobleed the power out f the filter caps.


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Post subject: Re: I think I have a blown transformer
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 12:55 pm
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Consider this a cheap lesson. Don't use fuses for "troubleshooting", and stay away from amps, seriously you can get hurt doing as you've done. Even if we don't like you, we don't want you hurt. (I think that we like you though)

Again, it wasn't used as a troubleshooting procedure. As for staying away from amps, ill continued to work with them. I've replaced output transformers before, and will again. I know how to drain the power.

I have to say this is a very disappointing forum post. Excluding bluesky, I've has good conversations with you, and retroverbial in the past, so im dismayed to see them jump on the flaming bandwagon. This o think is the straw that broke the camels back, and IM finished with this forum. There seems to be a lot of personal grieviences carried into posts.

To the members that PM for help diagnosing, and fixing guitar issues„ pm me like normal, and ill give you my email address, and the phone # for the shop. Just make sure you ask for mee. The other luthiers will want to to bring or ship your guitar and want $ to do it. As long as its work I think you can do yourself, I will still help you without asking for $. That was oneb of the true joys o got from this forum, helping those who need it, andill continue to do so, just not here.

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