Mr. Foxen

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There is no consensus, use the strings you like, try lots, clean them with meths, pass them on. In fact, we should have a strings test/trade program going, you use a set for a week, and post it on, one person who likes new, one who likes old, one who with clean them.

[quote name='wateroftyne' post='435582' date='Mar 15 2009, 09:59 PM']Warwickunt[/quote] Might want an edit there.

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[quote name='Alien' post='435390' date='Mar 15 2009, 06:28 PM']Seperate the tinsel leads (that's the ones going from terminal to coil for the uninitiated) and check the resistance across the terminals with a multimeter. Chances are there's nothing wrong with the speaker if the leads shorted. Pretty unusual fault though - usually the tinsel leads are set far enough apart that they can't touch even at maximum cone excursion. A[/quote] Well, there was plenty enough slack on these for them to touch, they were touching when I took it out, and there is that residue on them you get when things are sparking. I taped round them and stuck the tape to the chassis, hope it won't touch the cone and make noise, shouldn't do.

As far as I'm concerned, bargain equipment is the only equipment for me. Rapidly looked like it wasn't a bargain when it killed my own amp, which is about the only theng I've ever bought new, will have to see if fuses fix them.

Dad;'s a mechanic. you need somewhere that does TIG welding for aluminium. Stands for tungsten inert gas, basically you spray an inert gas over the tungsten welding tip, other than that its similar to arc welding.

Took the speaker out, problem was the two wires going form the terminals to the coil were touching (themselves at night). Pretty textbook short. Off to Maplins for fuses after work tomorrow then.

I can see a blown fuse in the original one, Gonna take that speaker out and shoot it also. Hoping my combo is the same with a fuse, since I'm part exing it for a Acoustic combo.

I was given an Electric Blue 150 that had no output. Fired it up, gets input, but no output. So I plugged the speaker part into my other EB-180 combo's output, and now that one doesn't work either. Guess its the speaker shorted or something that kills amps. Am I likely to be able to find a fuse to replace that will fix that? I've mailed Ashdown tech support.

Anyone actually used one of these? Might be scoring one locally, bit more interesting as a living room amp that my electric blue.

It is 4 ohm, and its 8s or 16s, my current thinking is they are 8s in parallell pairs of series pairs, then connected in paralell. Really, I want an 8 ohm cab anyway, since my valve head doesn't go down to 4 ohm, what I needed to know was what speakers are in it.

The meter would give me close enough to figure if its 8 or 16, dc resistance is around 30% different, unless it is more complicated that my experience of metering all the speakers about the house to practice told me. The calculator linked int the wiki does 2 3 and 4 speakers, and I don't have excel on this pc. Thinking of it as 2 4 speaker cabs, I don't think they can be 16s, but I might not be being creative enough with my wiring.

I'm sure there was a thread with a chart, but didn't spot it in the wiki or from searches. Question is, what impedance should the speakers in my 8x10 be? Didn't spot a number when I whipped one of them out, but I saw it was a Celestion BG10T-150, google came up with 16 ohm, but I'm not sure you can make a 4 ohm 8x10 out of that. Now leaning towards it actually being 8, and its at the practice space to I can't whip it out and meter it.

Passive belnd pots are never ideal. I wired my p to have 2 volumes and thats it, mostly due to space limit.

[quote name='umph' post='434921' date='Mar 14 2009, 10:18 PM']hi i'd love to try out some of your cabs sometime! if there as great as you make out i'll definatly be having one.[/quote] One? Lamer. One cab is not Doom.

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HAve a tuner that runs off those nixie tube things.

[quote name='Jono Bolton' post='434632' date='Mar 14 2009, 02:47 PM']Plus she bats for the other team.[/quote] Due, polaroids, only one of them really needs to be hot. Everyone wins.

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It is safe to say that the 1x15 is probably just about the right size to lift the 4x10 up to ideal hearing level. I like mixing cabs, and amps, different amps for every different cab.

[quote name='skankdelvar' post='434280' date='Mar 13 2009, 11:44 PM']But you're one of the good guys, Oli...[/quote] Anyone got any nice big heads/cabs I can blag for Cardiff on the 20th? More the merrier, and when I say 'merrier', I don't mean 'merrier', I mean 'doomier'. Hoping for some 15s, that way I can run 18, 15, 12 and 10, enough mixed drivers to implode the world.

I've borrowed bunches of stuff for gigs, and especially for recording, so I lend out pretty freely, plus its not uncommon for me to be trying to sell, so more people that have tried and liked is a bonus. I've never actually gigged all of my own rig at once thinking about it. Hmm, I'm that guy, but I have always lent out and passed the favour on. No-one wants to borrow my basses as they are tuned stupid with really high action and they are ugly.

Backline envy. Got the whole of the tutorial video that second clip is from, so good, he is still like an excited kid about his pedals.