Wagster
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I bought a quad of El84 Tungsram from Hi Test. When I talked with Gregg on the phone I said I want the tubes to sound complex on the cleaner tones on my AC30 TBX. He recommended the Tungsram tubes. When I put them in my amp they kept popping the filament fuse in my tbx. I sent them back to Gregg and he said they were fine. When I received them back they started making weird noises and then lost power. I sent them back and he asked me to take a pic on the inside of my amp since two of the Tungsrams were fried. He them preceded to tell me it was because my screen resisters were 1/2 watt and were failing with the high current drawling Tungsram. He said it was a flaw of the TBX amps. I though all AC30's uses 1/2 watt screens? I've been running the piss outta this amp for years and have only blown one 5ar4 and a Tung-Sol ECC83 in eight years of heavy gigging. I had a quad of Jan 84's that I got almost 3 years out of and never an issue with JJ's. I even had my tech talk to him and tell him that everything is running fine on the amp. We changed the screen grids to 5watt ceramics while we had the amp open but I don't it as being the culprit.
The bottom line is he is not going to replace the blown tubes and says it's my fault. Am I at fault here? I'm out $200.
The bottom line is he is not going to replace the blown tubes and says it's my fault. Am I at fault here? I'm out $200.
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