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Pictures: Is the lead dress ok?

Post by ACDCG400 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:43 pm

Hey guys I finished my new build a little while ago and i finally took some pictures. How is the lead dress. This is SDM's 1959/2203. I have a problem with PO, and feedback at high volumes. Could this be the fact that i don't have the head in a cab box?


here's the album:

http://www.putfile.com/album/178480

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Post by Wicksy » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:11 pm

Looks nice! More Hiwatt style dress but thats certainly no bad thing 8)
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Post by MacGaden » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:16 pm

Wicksy wrote:Looks nice! More Hiwatt style dress but thats certainly no bad thing 8)
+1. The squeal probably comes from the lack of shielding when it
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Post by Billy Batz » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:19 pm

Just put it on the sheet metal not the sheet metal on it. I found out the hard way years back laying aluminum flashing accoss teh chassis and having it bow int he middle and touch a HV turret and bam!

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Post by MacGaden » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:22 pm

Billy Batz wrote:Just put it on the sheet metal not the sheet metal on it. I found out the hard way years back laying aluminum flashing accoss teh chassis and having it bow int he middle and touch a HV turret and bam!
One of "those" days again ? :D
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Post by ACDCG400 » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:25 pm

did this happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOJ7ekO5WY

im gonna test it right now.
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Post by WilliamTheSwan » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:26 pm

I had a kid in my high school, a total idiot, who did that in the middle of class. :roll: Tripped the breaker, all the lights went off in our class and the one next door, the teacher flipped out and the kid got suspended, it was hilarious. :lol:

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Post by ACDCG400 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:37 pm

i tested the amp. on the 1959 setting all is well. on the 2203 setting it is really weird. im gonna post a video tonight of whats going on. BTW whats the symptoms of inaudible PO? i think that may be happening...
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Post by Doug H » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:34 pm

I don't really know if this could make a difference, but the green wire on V2 spends a lot of time close to and parallel to the heater wires.

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Post by Wicksy » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:58 pm

ACDCG400 wrote:did this happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOJ7ekO5WY

im gonna test it right now.
Darwin awards anyone? :lol:
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Post by ACDCG400 » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:52 pm

grid wire on V2. i will def move that when I get home.
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Post by Billy Batz » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:13 pm

Wicksy wrote:
ACDCG400 wrote:did this happen?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wOJ7ekO5WY

im gonna test it right now.
Darwin awards anyone? :lol:
Sigh. Only if he dies... Or gets castrated. You really should be safe though unless you touch the wires. I cant tell you how many times I short the circuit working on electrical without shutting it down. It is a nice lightshow and will put a nice burn mark into anything close by. Itll even put a hole in metal switch plates.

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Post by ACDCG400 » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:30 pm

well, here you go guys. only way I could make a recording. the squealing in the beggining is with the guitar vol. on 10. i then turn it off. the first humming is the plexi setting. you hear a click and thats me flicking the switch. its then on the 2203 setting. what do you think?

http://media.putfile.com/weird-noises-48
The mark of a good amp is that even when your fingers ain't cookin', your amp is. -Malcolm young

Where is the "balls" control? AH! here it is. why'd they label it volume?

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