hi , i haven't used the mace for a good few months and decided to plug the epi lpc into it last night , switched it on and it went POP about 4 or 5 times and then no sound , everything is powering up , the light at the front is on , the valves are glowing , hopefully it's nothing serious , but it'll have to wait to get fixed as i'm not working at the moment , any ideas of what might be wrong with the old beast ? cheers
Alan

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Are you still getting any sound from the speaker? Hiss or any kind of noise? If so rule out the output transformer.

Pops, I look to the small circuit components before the big stuff. Big stuff (transformers, mains smoothing capacitors) tend to go bang rather than pop.
Repeated pops sounds to me like a component slowly failing rather than just giving up the ghost.
Motorboating (put...put...put...put sound) is a sign of a output transformer going bad. Though other things can cause that too.
Just because a valve is glowing doesn't mean it's working properly. It's a good sign, but not a guarantee.

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hi Nik , hows things ? thanks for you'r input mate and i'm hoping it's an easy fix i'm waiting on some money coming in , then i'll get it into the local shop , the guy used to build his own tube amps and he repaired the mace when the power tranny went a while ago , cheers
Alan

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hi , i had a wee look inside the mace last night and one of the fuses was blown , picked up a few on the road home and she's singing again happy days , cheer
Alan

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Awesome! Glad it wasnt something really expensive!

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Mona
"Music is What Feelings Sound like"

hi , i put a wee post up on the peavey amp forum where theres a few guys well versed in these old amps and was told that one of my tubes was bad , so yesterday got a new set of valves , WOW , wha a difference it makes to the sound from the old beast , theres harmics jumping out at you that weren't there before , it's something to behold and it just gets better when i put the dallas rangemaster clone into the mix rory heaven
Monalst yes i'm very happy it wasn't too expensive as well
cheers
Alan

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I think motorboating is a sign of her "output" being good

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