Recent content by Perry Cantor

Thank you , I did repair a couple of board traces already , so far only tested one bad cement resistor , but I broke a power tube and also one pre amp tube in the process of taking it apart. I am really only praying the output transformer didn’t go, I’m ok with tubes just not looking into...

Thank you , I am a tech not as a profession but do not work on tube amps, just asking a general question if one tube flashed and fried one of the wire wound resistors and also the tube , is that enough to cause no output in an SVT, I want to replace all the power tubes , I already replaced the...

Hi I have a 1976 Ampeg SVT that was working fine, like an idiot I went and replaced one of the 6550 tubes that I bought as a spare. It was the last one in the amp of the 6 After firing up and and going out of standby the new tube flashed and now amp has no sound. Would one bad tube cause the...