Members RoboPimp Posted October 24, 2011 Members Share Posted October 24, 2011 lookign for glowing in preamp tubes is really a bad way to check them for function, many times there's very little glow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members t_e_l_e Posted October 24, 2011 Members Share Posted October 24, 2011 lookign for glowing in preamp tubes is really a bad way to check them for function, many times there's very little glow and even if the heater is working and the tubes are glowing there can still be broken something else in the particular tube... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Zozobra Posted October 24, 2011 Members Share Posted October 24, 2011 Try it with the old tubes if you still have them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JMR Posted October 24, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 24, 2011 I'll try it with some old tubes. I'm just really confused... How could the tubes be dead already? They're very new, and when I transport the amp, I put the tubes in the packages the came in and wrap them in bubble wrap and stick them in a box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mhuxtable Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 Tube companies these days make {censored}ty dead tubes all the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr.Grumpy Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 ....when I transport the amp, I put the tubes in the packages the came in and wrap them in bubble wrap and stick them in a box. no, no, no, NO!!! Removing the tubes is completely unnecessary unless the amp is being boxed up and shipped somewhere. You've probably created the problem by unplugging and re-plugging tubes all the time. Either the socket worked loose, or you managed to force a tube in the wrong way, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pewtershmit Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 v1 and v3 are not glowing at all? then replace them. and now the bad news, if its not the tubes, it will be pain in the ass. the peavey classic 30 is not really service friendly. meaning if you need to check or replace a fuse, you need to take the thing almost completely apart had similar issues, worked pretty long to check the fuses, haven't found anything else and so i had to put it back together, which also took a long time. so after that self check i took it to a tech. what happened prior the damage, somebody lifted the amp while playing and let it (fall) down from less then 5cm above ground. but it was enough that something broke. the actual fix was pretty easy, somewhere was a fried resistor. but the biggest problem was to open the amp up and put it back together again, so it was almost 2hour of work to pay, where the fix was just a couple of minutes i would have said, they are insane to charge me so much money for the work, but as i opened it up before myself, i understood why it them also took so long. without the work it would have been a 5 euro repair, so at the end it cost somehow 180euro or so. and before ppl flame me, that this couldn't be so complicated, try yourself and open a classic 30 and see how long it takes you Don't blame the classic 30 for your ineptitude to undo 8 bolts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members The Great Waldo Pepper Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 Tube companies these days make {censored}ty dead tubes all the time This is sad but true... I wish more folks would recognize that just cause the tubes are "new" doesn't mean they are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AimmarCair Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 Classic 30 is the best amp evar, nothing could ever possibly go wrong with it. Conclusion: Steve Jobs is haunting your amp with inferior apple technology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted October 25, 2011 Members Share Posted October 25, 2011 Classic 30 is the best amp evar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JMR Posted October 27, 2011 Author Members Share Posted October 27, 2011 Switched tubes around, switched in some older tubes. Still no sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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