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Trazan
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« on: April 03, 2008, 07:53:34 PM »
Had my JTM45 arrive today...all eager to spend the day playing and recording  this thing (in the middle of a CD production). As I open it up I notice that the red indicator lamp is broken and that the whole chassis had shifted left inside the head cabinet  Undecided





I open it up and except for the ripped up chassis I see nothing wrong, no loose parts. I fire it up and the indicator light and tubes light up....yeah, at least I get to hear it, I'm thinking. Flip the standby switch and poooof....dead  Cry Fuses blown, but there's no way I dare put new ones in there and hurt it more...

Brand new amp and I don't get to try it  Shocked Painful I tell you! I'm just hoping things can somehow be solved soon as there's way too much HC30 on this CD by now!
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« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2008, 08:18:47 PM »
Man! Was there major damage on the shipping carton? Seems like it would take a very big impact to do that! My JTM45BB ships tomorrow; makes me nervous.

What brand KT66's is Nik shipping? I'm also curious about what preamp tubes.
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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2008, 08:37:46 PM »
That's the thing...there was some damage in one corner, but it didn't seem like a big issue. The inner box had no damage at all. But, dropping the package can be done without leaving much visible damage of course.

Preamp tubes were JJ's. The KT66's were unlabelled, but I recall Nik mentioning he used Shuguang KT66's and either JJ's or Tung-Sol for preamp tubes.
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« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2008, 10:10:27 PM »
Thanks. I'm happy to see the KT66 are unlabeled, since that should rule out JJ's and is most likely Shuguang.

Like yourself, I'd have expected it to fire up. I'm wondering if the tubes got damaged. Would a bad rectifier cause the fuse to blow? And, BTW, what brand rectifier shipped?
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2008, 04:28:19 PM »

The rectifier tube is also JJ.


Yeah, I thought about the fuse thing, but I'm in Europe (240v) so I guess the 2A fuse is correct  Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2008, 07:23:23 PM »
Holy Cow!!
Too bad about that, looks like it really took a shot. I just went through a damage claim with FedEx. They were actually very up-front about everything, and wrote me a check pretty quick.
Hope you keep us up to date with what happens. I bought a Tweed Deluxe from Nik that was built wrong. I took some pictures for him and he was real good about doing the right thing. Not that this was the fault of Ceriatone. But like I said, hope you keep us in the loop regarding your amp.
Good Luck
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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2008, 11:01:57 PM »

I will  Smiley Just hoping it doesn't take too long. The JTM45 is one of the few classics that I've actually never played myself, so I was/am looking forward to this one.
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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2008, 05:06:47 AM »
My plexi clone came with 2A fuse and we use 110v in Taiwan (same as N America) and I had no issue with blown fuses.
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« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2008, 09:49:31 PM »
am on north america, i use the 2A duse and never had a problem with this.
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