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Topic: Session 400/LTD 400 Sarno kit info ready |
Ken Fox
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Nashville GA USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2006 9:26 am |
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Brad ask a while back if I would take on this project. With his help and the great board layout drawings from Bill Crook I have the info available. I will not be selling the kits, as too much tech support would be required! I will install the kits or supply free the following via email only:
-board layouts with parts numbers noted
-parts list with part numbers and pricing
-schematics with part numbers
There is no board layout for the powers supply, just a schematic with part numbers matching the parts list.
[This message was edited by Ken Fox on 30 October 2006 at 02:21 PM.] |
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Brad Sarno
From:
St. Louis, MO USA
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Posted 30 Oct 2006 11:56 am
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Ken, you da man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brad
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Bob Lawrence
From:
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 30 Oct 2006 2:48 pm
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ALl of the files are available on my website. You can download them individually or as one zip file.
Go to the Schematics/Mods section
http://steelguitartech.ca/ |
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Mike Wheeler
From:
Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2006 4:54 am
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Great website, Bob. Got it bookmarked.
Thanks! |
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Larry Hamilton
From:
Amarillo,Tx
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Posted 31 Oct 2006 3:15 pm
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Bought A Session400 a couple months ago and about a month ago took it and a printout of Brad's modification to my local Peavey shop and asked the tech if he could do it? After some study he said yes. Last week hea said he finally got the last of the parts in and I should get it soon. I hope it turns out good. I'll try and the forum how it worked out having my local tech do it. Ken Fox has done some work for in the past on a Profexll with super results. I hpe I don't have to send this thing to him after my local guy gets done but I will if I feel I have to in order to get it straightened out.
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Keep pickin', Larry |
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Bob Lawrence
From:
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 5:03 am
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Thanks! Mike, It's a work in progress. 
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2006 5:45 am
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Thanks again to Bob for posting the works! I spent probably an 8 hour days assembling all this info from notes from Brad, adding the parts numbers to Bill Crook's drwaings and making the spreadsheet.
I think I still have headache from it all.
I have a kit for the Nashville 400 worked out that is a compilation of the Peavey mod (using higher grade caps), the Metzgler reverb mod and all new filter caps (6 total for the 6 voltage rails). That is ready as well. The filters on it come from Peavey and the rest from Nouser parts. Great kit and really enhances the tone and flexibility of the amp. Even sounds great with a Tele now![This message was edited by Ken Fox on 03 November 2006 at 06:46 AM.] |
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Bill Myers
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Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2006 1:24 pm
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I just finished Ken's set of mod's for my nashville 400. We also changed main power caps out to 6800 uf at 65 volts.....It sounds great! It sounds better than any Nashville I've heard (and I've owned 3 myself). I hooked a JBL up in place of the black widow and it's just scary how good a Nashville can sound!
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1995 Derby D10 8x6 Fender Vibrosonic Amp
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 6 Nov 2006 6:58 pm
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Thanks, Bill! I can't seem to find a cap at Mouser in the old range or the range you used.
For now it looks like I will stick with Peavey part. Let me know if Mouser has that part, I just could not find an axial electrolytic to suit the amp there.
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Bill Myers
From:
Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA
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Posted 7 Nov 2006 3:56 am
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Ken, I sent you a link to the outfit I got the caps from. Those bigger caps really seem to add snap to the amp. It'll shake the floor on c6th neck. To give you and idea what the sound is like of the mod'd 400....we tested my amp with the black widow next to my buddies webb with a K-130 reconed to 4ohms. By all regular wisdom that Nashville should have sounded doggy next to the Webb....the sound was a little sweeter in the Webb....but only a little. That Nashville sounded a whole lot more like a Webb than a Peavey. If Peavey would sell a new 400 in this configuration, I think they'd have a hard time keeping them on the shelves!
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1995 Derby D10 8x6 Fender Vibrosonic Amp
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Bob Snelgrove
From:
san jose, ca
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Posted 7 Nov 2006 8:44 pm
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How about posting the link for the caps here?
thx
bob |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 8 Nov 2006 6:25 am
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Bob. I sent all the files to you. There is an update on the files that Bob may not have posted yet.
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Bob Lawrence
From:
Beaver Bank, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2007 6:20 pm LTD400 update
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I have more info just for the LTD400. It has a slightly smaller board than the Session 400 preamp so things are not as easier to locate! I have a photo with all the new parts installed and part numbers identified just for the LTD400. Email me with your email address and I will send it along with the rest of the Session 400/LTD400 mod.
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