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   ðŸŒ»ðŸ’�🌷🌺🌈 D ershmenderde   
   nden...den-den *jazz hands*   
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   ’�🌷🌺🌈 wrote:   
   > Fixed with 4 dollars worth of parts and $26 worth of my time for a friend   
   > of a friend.  Their gig is on Thursday.   
   >   
   > Initial diagnosis was no sound with input, dead quiet.   
   >   
   > Input signal trace fell flat one hop into the preamp board.   
   >   
   > First look into the preamp board connections showed a healthy -15v rail   
   > but the +15v was only 1.3v.   
   >   
   > Tracked down to Q1 tip29 NPN transistor that drives the +15v rail.  The   
   > compliment PNP Q11 tip30 had a crappy clip-on heatsink which maybe helped   
   > it win the race.  I replaced both with new transistors and tapped two   
   > heatsinks to 8-32 threading and screwed those on with some .   
   >   
   > I will test some more tomorrow and verify that the bias setting is ok,   
   > but luckily, the owner has a backup Ampeg just in case anything cascades   
   > down with new higher +15v rail.   
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   how much did you buy the soldering kit for?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)