Paramount 300B stopped working

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on: June 15, 2016, 03:58:47 AM
About 5 PM last night I noticed one of my 300B's had stopped working. I bent over it and could just barely smell something burning. The transformer was pretty hot. So I shut everything down and hooked my speakers up to my receiver and it didn't take me long to realize how much I loved my 300B's. I'll tinker with it on a rainy day when I can't do anything outside, but what are the chances it's just a tube? They've ran 2.5 years with no issues. I can built things, but I really don't know much about troubleshooting this amp. Thanks!


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Reply #1 on: June 15, 2016, 06:44:23 AM
Voltages?

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Reply #2 on: June 15, 2016, 07:49:27 AM
Not measured yet. I didn't find anything visually bad, but it wasn't a long look at it was pretty hot to hold. I think my first test will be swapping the tubes. I don't really expect a different result though. Then I can start measuring.


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