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Post subject: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 9:25 am
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On the Mustang V Head, is it mandatory that you have a speaker connected to both outputs? i.e. Could I connect an 8 ohm speaker to just one output without doing harm to the other? I know on tube amps you can do some serious damage if you do not keep a load on the output.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2014 3:45 pm
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Hi Lynn,

With your Fender® Mustang™ V head, you can connect and run one channel at a time safely with a mono 8ohm cabinet in either the left or right channel output. Please let me know if I can assist further.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 8:12 pm
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Is it just me, or is the above statement different advice than this one:

viewtopic.php?f=27&t=54868

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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 11:27 pm
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No, there is no contradiction here, the two topics are each giving part of the info about speaker connections.

This topic: One can use just one of the Mustang-V speaker outputs, or both.

The other topic you link to: If one uses both speaker outputs, they must go to separate, electrically isolated (from each other) speakers.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 11:02 am
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scott-uk:

I can appreciate your reading of the two statements but I'm going to respectfully ask you to do the same for me (even as we speak two versions of the same langugae). If not contradictory, at the very least ambiguous and dilemmic. I would simply like a statement from Alan, a representative of Fender and the original poster of both statements, clarifying that it is ok to run one, and only one, speaker load on the Mustang V head, an amp that supposedly has stereo outputs---i.e., it's officially ok to run one channel "dry" (no load).

While, from time to time, I have heard it's ok to run SS amps without loads, my lifetime experience is that you eventually add "not for long" to the statement, especially for power amps as the output increases.

So, please, Alan, how about it? Can you clear this up once and for all?

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Paj
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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 12:13 pm
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I would simply like a statement from Alan, a representative of Fender and the original poster of both statements, clarifying that it is ok to run one, and only one, speaker load on the Mustang V head

Ummm, isn't that exactly what he's done earlier this thread:

Fender TSL wrote:
With your Fender® Mustang™ V head, you can connect and run one channel at a time safely with a mono 8ohm cabinet in either the left or right channel output.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2014 8:10 am
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Well, actually---maybe. He says:" . . . run one channel at a time safely with a mono 8ohm cabinet in either the left or right channel output." Running "both channels" or "one channel at a time" is obviously a tad too semantic---two concerned people are contesting interpretatios. Thus my request for a further clarification.

I would like to have him/TSL clarify that it's ok to run one, and only one, solitary channel, leaving the other unconnected to any load. I'd like to have this on the record without ANY ambiguity. No thermal cycling, no damage to the output stage will take place..

Alan, you did say: "Please let me know if I can assist further."

Respectfully,
Paj
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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 8:55 am
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Hi PajFender,

Indeed I am happy to assist further. As I had stated earlier in this thread, "With your Fender® Mustang™ V head, you can connect and run one channel at a time safely with a mono 8ohm cabinet in either the left or right channel output..." I think that perhaps the confusion may be arising due to the fact that this is a stereo head. It is designed to run with its custom designed Mustang stereo cabinet.

Therefore, when you choose to connect a third party cabinet to the head, you should connect one 8ohm mono cabinet to either the left or right channel output, or use (2) 8ohm mono cabinets, connecting one cabinet to the left and one to the right channel outputs on the head. I hope this is helpful. And again, please let me know if I can assist further.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 1:43 pm
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Alan, you're the best! Thanks for supporting this thread.


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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:17 pm
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Hi Lynn,

You are very welcome. And thanks for your kind words.

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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 3:34 pm
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Thanks, Alan. This may be the first time I've ever heard a manufacturer say it's ok to run a power amp channel (either left ot right) without a load but it's definitely good to know that the Mustang V has that capability/flexibility. This just confirms my impression that the power amp section of the Mustang amps is well designed and not just an assumption or afterthought.

Thanks again for your response.

Sincerely,
Paj
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Post subject: Re: Mustang V speaker question for Alan Willey
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2014 4:19 pm
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Hi PajFender,

You're welcome. I'm glad that I was able to assist. As you point out, in this case, you are able to safely run (at an appropriate impedance) a single channel output with the Fender® Mustang™ head. Please let us know if we can assist further.

Best Regards,

Alan

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