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Can a dying tube blow a fuse?
It sure can. I had this happen to our Fender 400 PA system (used 4 Svetlana 6L6GC's) and Vox AC30 (used Ei EL84's).
In both cases, there was a bad power tube. We've talked to our amp techs, and coupled with our own experiences, 80%-90% of the time a fuse is blown, its a tube.
Tube roll to find the bad seed. It's good to have extra tubes and fuses lying around.
-Matt
Monday, January 21, 2008
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After blowing a fuse and not finding an obvious cause, a few days later, I started to hear some very strange hissing/squeeling sounds in the left channel of my amp. Turned out to be a dying 12AX7...
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