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Re: reverb issue [message #13255 is a reply to message #13238]

Wed, 24 March 2010 23:28

cassent5150
Messages: 341
Registered: August 2009

Senior Member

Well I guess I should've read this before replied to Stevems comment. Sure would be nice to know all the ins and outs of transistors like that. My knowledge for transistors is that there are 2 types NPN and PNP and the ones I work with are 3 pins ( Emitter,base and collector). I can find the base OK as the common pin but dont ask me which is the emitter or collector unless its in the board and I have the schematic. I know there's something on them like a flat spot or a dot that suppose to tell you "so help a brother out here!! What is the secret?". You loose me when you start talking High Gain and Low noise, I have a hard time telling a good one from a bad one already, but I did give you a list of the ones I do have that cross to NTE-123. I was clueless about the driver section of the board till tonight. I thought ya'll were talking about the whole board as being the driver. I found out the hard way that the foot switch wire and jack need to be in place for this thing to work. Like an idiot, while i was removing the board from the 100-5 and installing it into the 200-5 that brown footswitch wire broke off the board and I totaly forgot. After soldering the 50 or so wire that go into this board and giveing it a test run I got real frustrated to find that I had no reverb sounds at all now, I'm thinking What the Heck did I do now. Double checking the wires and another cup of coffee later it hit me that that wire wasn't hooked in and of coarse it worked fine when I soldered that back.
anyway thanks for the reply!!!!! Steve C

Steve C

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