Blew up my Metroamp

Gainfreak · Post by **Gainfreak** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:31 am

Plugged straight in to it and tried to crank it up a bit and its now popping mains fuses. I guess this will step up my learning of how to fix amps lol!!

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:59 am

swaped in a new set of output tubes yet?

this belongs in another forum dont ya think?... oh wait...u blew it up playing i'm the one didn't ya?

Gainfreak · Post by **Gainfreak** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:06 pm

rockstah wrote:swaped in a new set of output tubes yet?

this belongs in another forum dont ya think?... oh wait...u blew it up playing i'm the one didn't ya?

hahhaha!!

I think I blew it up playing Unchained so that's why I posted here lol!!

I think the tubes are pretty new but It can't hurt swapping them!

rockstah · Post by **rockstah** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:08 pm

i figured.

all it takes is one bad tube.

jerrydyer · Post by **jerrydyer** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:10 pm

My sympathy , but diming it does eat tubes so probably just that.

Gainfreak · Post by **Gainfreak** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:25 pm

rockstah wrote:i figured. all it takes is one bad tube.

Thanks!! I'll try replacing them sometime this weekend!

MrDan666 · Post by **MrDan666** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:27 pm

What tubes were in the amp Ralph?

Gainfreak · Post by **Gainfreak** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:28 pm

jerrydyer wrote:My sympathy , but diming it does eat tubes so probably just that.

I haven't played the amp that much at volume and they are relatively new but I'm sure that one of the tubes just went bad. Thanks!

Gainfreak · Post by **Gainfreak** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 9:37 am

MrDan666 wrote:What tubes were in the amp Ralph?

I think they are JJ's Dan.

MrDan666 · Post by **MrDan666** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:12 pm

Gainfreak wrote:
MrDan666 wrote:What tubes were in the amp Ralph?
I think they are JJ's Dan.

Iv had a bunch of JJ's blow up when they were still quite new, and i had 3 JJ preamp tubes i bought brand new that were microphonic. Seems sometimes JJ's last and sometimes they dont last 5minutes..

wdelaney72 · Post by **wdelaney72** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:05 pm

Get a set of 11th Gen Shuguangs from TubeTramp. They're very durable.