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*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
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Fried, sautéed, toasted and other food based analogies.
Mind you, cranked, the Hiwatt was just fucking flabbergastingly good. Real crunch, a new facet to it.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Unwise to use it with any other amp until it's been checked over. If you're lucky you might just have burned the coating off the resistance element - the actual winding itself is quite thick wire so it might have survived fairly undamaged. You'd probably know if you'd actually burned out the element since you would have got sudden silence and then most likely a nasty burning smell coming from the amp...
To be honest the supposed 45W rating of these is quite optimistic - I wouldn't even use one with a Tweed Bassman. As hywelg said, about 30W max.
For what it's worth I wouldn't even use a full-size Airbrake with a DR103 - the minimum I would think safe would be a Marshall Powerbrake, THD Hotplate or the Weber Mass 200 (not any of the smaller models) or something else that's definitely rated for the full output of a 100W+ amp.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Thanks
Then again I suppose that even just -3dB is going to be half the energy output of the amp turning into heat...
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8Ohm Hotplate?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Exactly. And at -6dB, three-quarters of it - which is as close to all as makes no practical difference for a resistor power rating really, since for safety you should aim for a 2:1 margin.
If you have one, yes. If you don't, I'd get a 16. Like Marshalls, Hiwatts will get a bit stressed running flat-out into a Hotplate, and the way to fix that is to deliberately mismatch it so the amp is set to one step below the Hotplate - ie 8 ohms on the amp into a 16-ohm Hotplate or 4 ohms for an 8-ohm one. This is because the Hotplate's impedance curve dips at high frequencies so it's lower than a real speaker.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
(formerly miserneil)
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Yes - 8 or 16 ohm. I know you want the 8 really because its purple .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
This might do the job? Rated at 50w
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.