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Ronnie Sellers
From:
Seymour Tenn
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 10:02 am |
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Hey guys" I have a session 500 that's gives me problems from time to time, it will play fine maybe a week or so then it happens. You turn it on and every things works fine " then the sound starts fadeing and cracking while playing , you can sometimes floor the vol pedal and it will come back on " or hit on the top of the cabnett and it will come back on and do fine all night.
Have takeing it to the music store several times and the guy is
very good on equipment repairs/ he also works for a TV station.
He has check all the sorder joints, and like i said it works fine for awhile after the repair.
Tell me what to tell him what to look for.
Thanks" you guys are great. |
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Ronnie Sellers
From:
Seymour Tenn
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 10:09 am session 500
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Sorry for the typeo i ment 500 instead 1000.  |
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autry andress
From:
Plano, Tx.
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 11:14 am
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I had a Session 500 that was doing the same thing. If I remember right it was the Filter Caps.
Man those ole Session 500 can sure put out the tone.
Good Luck..... |
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Roger Kelly
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Bristol,Tennessee
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 3:15 pm
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It may be the Input Jacks/Effects Jacks contacts that are dirty. Remove the chassis and spray them while working the guitar jack in and out, or you can take a burnishing tool or a small piece of paper and pull through the contact.
If you don't want to remove the chassis, spray into the jacks and use your guitar male jack to exercise the jacks. This should correct the problem for a while.
It is a good idea to repeat this every few weeks or so. It may be something more serious, but I would try this first if you have not tried it. |
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Mike Wheeler
From:
Delaware, Ohio, USA
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Posted 28 Jan 2007 3:20 pm
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A couple things come to mind.......
Did your tech check and clean all the jacks and pots and other type connectors? If he checked for a bad solder connection, which I strongly suspect, did he apply cold and heat? Visual inspections are not enough. The tip-off is that, as you describe, it dies slowly. I think it's a connection somewhere fritzing out.
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Best regards,
Mike |
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Mike Brown
From:
Meridian, Mississippi USA
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Posted 22 Feb 2007 7:45 pm Amp
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Sounds like it needs a service trip to Peavey!
Here's the address to send the chassis and power module;
Peavey Service Center
Attn; Repair Dept.
412 Hwy. 80 East
Meridian, MS 39301
Please include a note of symptoms and your daytime phone number.
Mike Brown
Peavey USA |
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Skip Cole
From:
North Mississippi
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 11:52 am
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What Mike said , send it to Peavey and they'll drive out the gremlins till it does right . I'm about to send my Nash 1k to em for a checkup and purging .  |
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Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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Posted 23 Feb 2007 10:09 pm loop pre- and power amp jakcs
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My Session 500 has the very same bad habit, but it's totally cured simply by looping the pre- and power amp jacks at the back of the amp.
Anders |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 24 Feb 2007 2:46 am
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With the age of the Session 500, I would suspect both the filter caps are bad plus an intermittent - either a "thru" jack, molex connector or a solder joint.
I won't comment on the tech you have as many "tech's" have problems finding intermittents. There is also the problem that once out of the case the intermittent could "go away" (as an amp tech, I've fought that several times and it's a hard problem to find).
I agree a trip to the Peavey repair center is the best option. |
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Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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Posted 25 Feb 2007 11:44 pm Tell us
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Ronnie; please tell us what was wrong when you've fixed the amp. I'm curious about it.
Anders |
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Tony Palmer
From:
St Augustine,FL
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Posted 2 Mar 2007 6:06 pm
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I hate to flame Peavey amps, cause without them, where'd we be?...and I own 5 of them...but every single one, except the newest NV1000 has had this exact same thing happen to them.
They start out fine, then start to crackle and distort and sometimes a big slap across the strings with full volume will bring them back for a while, then it happens again.
I have had to have them all fixed, one at a time, either sending them back to Peavey or the local electronic guy.
I have accepted this to be part of the responsibility that goes along with owning a 20 year old amp, so be it  |
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Anders Brundell
From:
Falun, Sweden
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Posted 3 Mar 2007 4:22 am explanation
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Excuse me for a poor explanation above. When I say that I loop the preamp out and poweramp in jacks above I mean that I connect the preamp out jack and the poweramp in jack at the back panel of the amp with a (very short) guitar cord. The jacks are very close to each others. (Use 90 degrees angled plugs to avoid the risk of breaking something in case the amp falls on it's back.)
This must have bypassed the signal across a cold solder, or some other kind of poor galvanic contact, inside the amp.
I guess that Peavey's manufacturing line has been a little too short of time to make an a 100 proof job all the time; hence these quality problems.
Anders |
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