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The PA135 was built for PA operation with two cabinets (4 x 8 inch columns each side), so it only had the 4ohm secondary of the OT connected - with two shorting jacks, one per "side" (although it's not stereo, of course). Any inserted plug would open the short. But that would always leave the...

Thanks agedhorse for the reply! That was roughly as I had figured out, I was just curious as it's almost the only difference in otherwise identical setups... So it wouldn't be advisable to add an additional R (i.e. 470 or something) across the output?

Hi there, I'm new to this forum, but not to electronics ;-) I have an old Fender PA135 head that I use as a Bass head, sounds fantastic. Some previous owner tampered with it however and built in a lousy little micro-flip-switch as an impedance selector for the speakers. Doing this he changed the...