Peavey VB-2 fuse problems?

[guli]

Now I'm REALLY curious about this head, what I've read and heard it should be awesome, but I've also heard about the internal fuse problem with them?
Is it easy to fix? Is it on every head or just a couple?

[jastacey]

From what I remember, from earlier posts, the first 100 or so amps had defective internal high voltage fuses, that were directly mounted on a PCB .....

[basskababble]

I have one, that I'm replacing with and Orange Terror Bass for the weight and because it fits my music better.

PM me if you decide to get one. They sound good both clean and dirty, but where it's a gem is that it's a tank, and very versatile.

[carbonfold]

The fuse problem was that Peavey was using a faulty 1.5a fuse. If you saw or blew this 1.5a fuse out, Peavey replaced them with a 1.6a fuse.

I, of course, had an additional problem beyond this, but had it fixed under warranty (bad transformer diode).

[panama]

Early issue what was fixed. No big. Great heads.

[basskababble]

I have carbonfold's... so now you know it's in working order, which I'm sure he can vouch for as far as he sent it.

It actually sounds great pushing my acoustic bass. The tube sound is much better than my Ampeg V4-B was in a low volume situation. That's a serious statement to make. The V4-B had a sweet spot. This thing performs at low volume much better than that did.

[carbonfold]

I had two Honestly, I can't remember which one you got off me. They both were down at one point for blowing the fuse.

One was the old skool faulty fuse issue and the other was the diode. Which one you got, dunno

But after that fix, it's a two thumbs up amp. Reminds of comparing the ATK bass to MM Stingray. A bit different, but just as good, if not better And for the price, hard to pass.

Originally Posted by basskababble

I have carbonfold's... so now you know it's in working order, which I'm sure he can vouch for as far as he sent it.

It actually sounds great pushing my acoustic bass. The tube sound is much better than my Ampeg V4-B was in a low volume situation. That's a serious statement to make. The V4-B had a sweet spot. This thing performs at low volume much better than that did.

[BassmanPaul]

Originally Posted by basskababble

The tube sound is much better than my Ampeg V4-B was in a low volume situation. That's a serious statement to make. The V4-B had a sweet spot. This thing performs at low volume much better than that did.

I'm no Ampeg fan but my first thought reading your post was: Well yeah! It's got twice the power of the V4B so it's got a completely different "sweet spot".

Paul

[basskababble]

Paul, another thing to consider is that the V4-B had a single volume while the Vb-2 has a separate modern master volume knob, so the sweet spot isn't as finite. Of course you're right though.