FUSE your amp

[Cheeks]

If your amp has no fuse, then YOU

put a fuse in the circuit on the primary side

of the power transformer.

 

Cheap amps or low powered amps (to cut costs) generally

do not have any fuses in them.

IF your amp has a power transformer in it and it is not

fused, you could be out of a amp if a capacitor should

ever short-out and thence wipe out your power transformer

on the secondary side of that power transformer.

 

So, if your amp has no fuse in it,

ADD one... to the PRIMARY (mains AC side) of the

power transformer circuit.

 

It is better to blow a fuse when a capacitor shorts,

than to overheat and melt the windings in a power

transformer. That could also pose a fire hazard

toboot.

 

Chances are pretty good you will not find another

replacement power transformer... if you do, it will

be either used or a universal replacement and

extremely expensive to replace.

 

A simple fuse if very cheap and inexpensive to replace.

 

Thinking ahead is a good idea.