5153 help needed!!!

[SFW]

Does anyone know if there are any fuses on the inside of the 5153 chassis? I wen to fire my amp up this afternoon and the power indicator light on the front comes on, but NONE of the tubes light up and I'm not getting any sound. If anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears right now.

 

[SFW]

Ok, I found the 12A fuse inside of the amp was blown. Anyone care to take a guess at what would have caused it to blow?

 

[mystixboi]

Oh no. I have no idea but you can email Howard from Fender. He will work with you directly with it. I believe that he was part of the engineering process of the amp. Here is his email

hkaplan@fender.com

 

[nwright]

Howard was involved with the 50 watt, but may be able to help with the 100.

As for the amp, I've had internal fuses go when power tubes go south.

 

[jack butler]

Are you sure it was a 12 volt fuse? I don't know a lot about amps electronics, but I wouldn't think anything crucial would operate off 12 volts. I think most power tubes are fused with 250 volt fuses.

 

[cujo]

Bad tubes can cause a fuse to go. It happened to me before.

 

[dooredge]

^ Same here.