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Donnie Weir
From:
Marshall, Texas, USA
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Posted 15 Apr 2012 6:41 pm |
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I was reading another post. Ray Montee posted that He had a Session 400 catch on fire. I had one with a 15" JBL that caught fire in the speaker area. I have told other players about it and they don't seem to believe me. Now that I know of two, How many more have had that problem.
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Donnie Weir
Sho-Bud Pro3 Custom 8-4
Sho-Bud LDG 3-4
Nashville 400
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Ray Montee
From:
Portland, Oregon (deceased)
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Posted 15 Apr 2012 9:07 pm About those Peavy amps.............
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Mine too, was a JBL Speaker.........
Replaced it with a Black Widow. |
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Billy Tonnesen
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R.I.P., Buena Park, California
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Posted 15 Apr 2012 10:18 pm
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How many remember when a Transformer would short out and the terrible smell before the Amp completely failed !
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Dale Hampton
From:
Missouri, USA
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Posted 16 Apr 2012 9:10 pm
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| A few years ago I was playing a gig and my sound went dead. It was my Evans FET500. I was fiddling with my cables and trying to figure out what was wrong and heard the guitar player exclaim TURN IT OFF! I turned around and my speaker cone looked like a solar eclipse. The output transistors had shorted out and sent 50 plus volts to the speaker voice coil. Luckily it happened to be the last song of the night |
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Doug Earnest
From:
Branson, MO USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2012 6:58 am
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We played an outdoor festival years ago in southeast Kansas. Another group was using our equipment. The bass player and I were out in the crowd wandering around and listening, and both remarked how good the bass guitar was sounding. It was a big Music Man head through a Sunn folded horn type cabinet.
A couple of minutes later we looked up and there were flames and smoke coming out of the cabinet! It really looked cool for about thirty seconds but of course it was the end of the speakers. It didn't hurt the head any,though. The guitar player had a single 15 closed back Music Man speaker cabinet so we used it on the bass for the rest of the night. Really I don't miss any of that stuff at all. |
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Bud Angelotti
From:
Larryville, NJ, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2012 10:43 am
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| Well, many moons ago, I had a big ol' Rickenbacker bass. Stereo. So, we finally got to hook it up to 2 amps. Long story short, there was smoke coming out of the jacks where you plug instruments in. HA ! It was a fender bassman head. We turned it off and didn't use it for about a year. Turned it back on and it worked fine. It was pre CBS. Don't make 'em like they use to. |
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 17 Apr 2012 12:14 pm
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It's a more common problem than you might think, especially with solid state amps that have the top vent. All it takes is a few drops of water, or a staple or bit of wire falling into the amp...and PRESTO! The output transistors short and send all the power supply voltage directly into the speaker. And, as speakers are not designed to handle DC, they promptly "light up" and fry themselves.  |
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Bill A. Moore
From:
Silver City, New Mexico, USA
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Posted 17 Apr 2012 1:48 pm
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Used to be part of the show in a R&R band I was in. First time in a new venue near the end of the 3rd set, we set off some flash powder in a dummy amp, near the end of a long lead ride. One of the bouncers would come running up with an extinguisher loaded with some benign powder.
Everybody thought they witnessed an amp meltdown! |
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