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Offline wilddeath

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picked up a beta bass at a swap meet!
« on: April 18, 2008, 02:34:09 pm »
$130 cash. excited as all hell. came home, powered up. no sound.  first thing i noticed is there are no fuses (6 amp) in F2 and F3.  neither of the channels worked so i figured let me drop the 6amp fuses from my beta lead into it. Channel A and B lights were still out and no sound anywhere.  Fuses, put em back in the lead.   Now i powered up the lead and there is there complete silence, nothing plugged into the speaker jacks. the light goes on and that is it. Its ready to work.  The bass however.... has a hum to it when powered up, again nothing in any jacks just the power light on.   also i noticed someone had been in there cause it was missing the metal casing that screws onto the chassis.  the two caps look good. but thats about the limit of my solid state know how.  but i do know these amps sound terrific and i want to get the second one up and running so i can power to full beta stacks.  Its the last piece needed in a long journey of collecting the right pieces.  hopefully ill be able to rest soon.   
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Offline basiklybass

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Re: picked up a beta bass at a swap meet!
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2008, 10:49:31 am »
I am always cautious when thining about an amp that has no fuses and more so when they don't have the cap. Experiance has taught me that usually something is fried in it and it is not "Just needs a fuse..."

Sounds like you blew the fuse trying it on the new amp but the light went on on the Lead so.....that's a strange one. I have had fuses look fine and be blown as well as fuses that test OK but blow as soon as they are put back in a working amp. I figure it almost blew in the first amp, then did in the second. As commented on several times in this forum; always make a matrix when checking out amps. One never knows if a cord or cable might have gone bad during testing (it can happen) and you sometimes end up chasing a rabbit down a hole when you just needed to change the cable. Check each component one at a time, never, never change two things at once. Always check the component on a working amp or speaker before moving on. My guess, from out of the blue is a bad power supply....keep us posted willya, huh?