Have you ever fried you amp head by mistake?

[Rob Tahan]

I did that the first night i got my diezel herbert at our show. I was trying to play and was thinking my amp wasnt working and then finally realized it wasnt my guitar or pedals or even volume...IT WAS MY SPEAKER CABLE ! ...unplugged!!!
The herbert was fine though. Soooo glad.

How long were you trying to make it work?? 1 minute, 5? Plus, at a show I'm sure your volume know would've been set rather high. Mine was set at like 1.

Probably 2 good minutes. It was also on standby too. . I dont know if that makes a difference or not.

 

[Kiteboarder]

I did that the first night i got my diezel herbert at our show. I was trying to play and was thinking my amp wasnt working and then finally realized it wasnt my guitar or pedals or even volume...IT WAS MY SPEAKER CABLE ! ...unplugged!!!
The herbert was fine though. Soooo glad.

How long were you trying to make it work?? 1 minute, 5? Plus, at a show I'm sure your volume know would've been set rather high. Mine was set at like 1.

Probably 2 good minutes. It was also on standby too. . I dont know if that makes a difference or not.

If the amp is on Standby, it shouldn't make a difference. I think. Can somebody else chime in...?

 

[blackba]

Tube amps are fine on standby without a speaker load. Only time I do this though is when I am doing a cab test. It still is pretty easy to forget and flip the amp one without a speaker load

 

[Kiteboarder]

Somebody needs to come up with some kind of "auto-load". If there is no load on the amp, it automatically switches to "safe-mode". Somehow.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

I had a literally brand new mesa 50/50 power amp blow up this way at a practice studio. their equipment was junk and the speaker jack rattled loose, disconnected itself and fell into the cab before i realized what was happening. by the time i did the amp was fried. it still sits in the corner of my room collecting dust after about 8 years. should fix it one day as it has less than 5 hours on it!

It shouldn't be too hard to fix right? I mean, it's mainly the power transformer at the end that gets shot? Or is there more?

a tube socket is also fried black, not sure what other damage may have occurred.

 

[Kiteboarder]

I had a literally brand new mesa 50/50 power amp blow up this way at a practice studio. their equipment was junk and the speaker jack rattled loose, disconnected itself and fell into the cab before i realized what was happening. by the time i did the amp was fried. it still sits in the corner of my room collecting dust after about 8 years. should fix it one day as it has less than 5 hours on it!

It shouldn't be too hard to fix right? I mean, it's mainly the power transformer at the end that gets shot? Or is there more?

a tube socket is also fried black, not sure what other damage may have occurred.

Oh, I see. Is that a bass amp?

 

[RockNRollBabyHead]

I never fried one, but I have cooked a few on the BBQ. It's an acquired taste, but very tasty indeed.

 

[Kiteboarder]

I never fried one, but I have cooked a few on the BBQ. It's an acquired taste, but very tasty indeed.

You need to be a glass eater. I bet those tubes, when hot, are pretty crunchy.

 

[Anonymous]

Somebody needs to come up with some kind of "auto-load". If there is no load on the amp, it automatically switches to "safe-mode". Somehow.

My Rivera TBR5 is equipped with an internal safety switch. If there is no load in the speaker 1 jack it will not power up. Pretty cool.

 

[Kiteboarder]

Wow. See, that should be standard in all of today's modern amps.

 

[titanamps]

way back before i started building amps, i destroyed a mesa single rectifier by not having a cab plugged in.

these days if i turn an amp on and i don't get sound when i play, i turn it right back off. burn me once....

 

[Anonymous]

Back in the day before the stock market collapse and economic slowdown, we used to plug in amps and try to blow them up, like as a competition to see who's amp is more tuff.

 

[moltenmetalburn]

I had a literally brand new mesa 50/50 power amp blow up this way at a practice studio. their equipment was junk and the speaker jack rattled loose, disconnected itself and fell into the cab before i realized what was happening. by the time i did the amp was fried. it still sits in the corner of my room collecting dust after about 8 years. should fix it one day as it has less than 5 hours on it!

It shouldn't be too hard to fix right? I mean, it's mainly the power transformer at the end that gets shot? Or is there more?

a tube socket is also fried black, not sure what other damage may have occurred.

Oh, I see. Is that a bass amp?

No, its just a 2x50 watt stereo power amp.

the modern equivalent:
http://www.mesaboogie.com/Product_Info/ ... o2-50.html

mine was the one before the revamp in 2002.

 

[Marshall Law]

everybody has done that, I have been very fortunate, I bought my first Marshall in 1984, I have never even had a tube fail or anything on any of my amps, I have 3 Marshall heads, A twin reverb, a Carr Hammerhead,
A modded crate v-5, a custom made 10 watt amp, and of course my newest edition a Blackstar HT5, which by the way absolutely F#@KIN ROCKS