Ceriatone Forum

I have the stray cat 30 kit and as some may remember I have been having a helluva time finding a cheap alternative for trannies (I already know about tds and westlabs thank you.)
I was browsing bad cats website and saw that they offer a conversion of an existing hot cat 30 to 50 watts. I assume this involves a few component changes as well as a transformer change.
This may work for me as I have a tranny set from mercury for the jtm50 kit nik offers. You think you guys can help figure out which components would change.

That 50w OT will probably work fine with the stock Stray Cat config.  It will sound a little different probably, but so will the 50w BadCat conversion.  the impedance of the OT may be an issue, but they're both configured to run EL34's so it should be fine.

I don't know why anyone would want to juice the HotCat to 50w anyway, as it will change the tone somewhat because the output section will be working a little differently (probably leaning a little more toward class AB than class A).  No need to do it for volume as there's not much difference between 30w & 50w in real terms (and the 30w is plenty loud anyway).  It might give a touch more headroom on the clean channel, but only a touch.

Yeah I am sure it changes the tonal values a bit. but I am willing to do it just to get this amp rockin. who knows it may be right for me. I dont need it to be any louder, 30 watts is plenty, its more a case of I already have a pt set for a 50 watt tube rectified amp.

-anybody have any ideas of how badcat accomplishes this?

so I ran through it for a bit with a friend that is very experienced and we concluded just rockin the trannies i had and leaving the switch on the tube rec position would be safe.
conclusion-effin rocks
-pullin about 277v of the 3 pin..which should be safe for an el34. Pre amp tubes runnin safely as well.
-gonna run it for a bit but so far lower volume test make for amazing tones. gonna have clips posted fairly soon.