What to do when your Fender amp blows a fuse?
This is not going to be fixable at the gig. If the light stays on when you take all the tubes out, shut the amp down and install the rectifier tube (if it has one), then the power tubes, then the preamp tubes one by one turning the amp on every time you install a new tube. When the fuse blows, you’ve found the bad tube.
Do you have to change all the power tubes at once?
If changing all the tubes fixed the problem, then go back and try to figure out which tube it was and replace that one. If it was a power tube (usually the bigger ones, and there are usually an even number of them), then you probably have to have the amp biased. It’s always best to change all the power tubes at once, not replace one at a time.
Why does the fuse blow after replacing a power tube?
Shame on you if you do this! Let the tubes warm up about 30 seconds before you turn on the second switch!). If you find that the fuse blows after replacing one of the power tubes, and still blows when you install a known good power tube, you could possibly have a blown output transformer.
What should I replace the reverb driver tube on?
Replace the third tube from the right looking from the back (second on a Princeton Reverb). This is the reverb driver tube (12AT7). Replace the fourth tube from the right looking from the back (third on a Princeton Reverb). This is the reverb recovery tube (12AX7).
This is not going to be fixable at the gig. If the light stays on when you take all the tubes out, shut the amp down and install the rectifier tube (if it has one), then the power tubes, then the preamp tubes one by one turning the amp on every time you install a new tube. When the fuse blows, you’ve found the bad tube.
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Why do I need to rewire my Fender Stratocaster?
This is as a result of the limited tones available on the Yngwie Malmsteen Stratocaster. The 3 way pickup selector switch and the week DeMarzio pickups leave the guitar with a serious lack of the sort tonal variations I use to write music, so I completely rewire the guitar so it better suits my needs.