I've got a 70's Princeton Reverb that I bought earlier this year. I recently installed new transformers, for a laugh, like you do. Now it won't work.
Voltages from the mains transformer are all present and correct, but as soon as you install a rectifier, weirdness starts happening. The filter caps (new ones, I installed them shortly after I bought the amp, but I was playing it for months before the new transformers) get hot, and then there's a .....snap........snap........snap.... arcing sound. And then I turn it off in a state of misery. I've been through it and through it, looking for wrong connections, dodgy socket tags, but to no avail and I can no longer see the forest for the trees. Different rectifiers have been tried.
Do these symptoms sound familiar to any of the techs here? I'm at the point of taking it to a tech, which will be a blow to my considerable ego.
All thoughts welcome.
- Ed
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