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Ok, so I made a huge mistake last night. I decided I wanted to make a footswitch to go between my clean and lead channels on my Peavey TransTube Rage 158. Anywho while in the process of doing this I ruined the switch that was on the circuit board. Now it doesn't work. I was wondering if anyone knows how these little buggers work so that I could make the right connections for clean and lead and hopefully salvage this thing. I know it's not a super awesome amp, but it has been a good little amp, it gets the job done and I'd like to fix it.
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well i have an amp almost just like that just with reverb and effects and i will help, but you are going to have to give more details on what you did.
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You must have the Blazer 158. That is almost exactly the same.
Anywho I want to add an external footswitch that will allow me to switch from the Clean to the Lead Channel and back. What I did was I unsoldered the Clean/Lead channel selector switch from its position on the board. When I took it off I kinda destroyed it and the board will not work without it. I just want to know how I can get the amp working with an external 2 pole toggle switch. So to do this I need to know what each connection on that switch did and how electricity flows through that switch.
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while I dont know the answer to that, I can tell you that on Peavey's website the support staff there really knwo thier stuff and are great about getting back to you.
perhpas ask them?
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I doubt they'd help me, but I suppose I can give it a try. I wouldn't think that someone at peavey would be thrilled to spend time helping with a modification like the one i'm attempting....
Ah, who cares, it's support. What the heck, I might as well try.
I sent an e-mail so we'll see what happens...
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man...
i don't mean to be insulting but what you're attempting takes at least some level of electrical skills. at this point, you might have a ruined circuit board on your hands and your best bet would be dropping $40 to have an amp tech tell you that you need to buy a new amp.
Peavey Tech support is probably your best free bet still. I haven't spent any time on a project like this and generally I don't recommend them.
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thesteve: It's an $80 dollar SS amp. It's not like I'm out a whole bunch. I work to pay for everything I purchase, so I do realize $80 is a chunk of change, but in the whole spectrum of everything, it's not a big deal. Worse case scenario is that I end up replacing the loadspeaker in the peavey amp skeleton and use it as a cab for my Laney 1x12 that I am getting. It's not that I don't have electrical knowledge, because I have soldered another switch to the board to allow me to do a few things with the headphone jack, it's just I didn't get to study the workings of the channel switch before I mangled it up.
No one from Peavey has replied...... so much for good support.
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Originally Posted by kquamme94 thesteve: It's an $80 dollar SS amp. It's not like I'm out a whole bunch. I work to pay for everything I purchase, so I do realize $80 is a chunk of change, but in the whole spectrum of everything, it's not a big deal. Worse case scenario is that I end up replacing the loadspeaker in the peavey amp skeleton and use it as a cab for my Laney 1x12 that I am getting.
No one from Peavey has replied...... so much for good support. right...what i meant is that it'd cost you more to get the thing looked at/repaired by a professional than it's worth.
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Originally Posted by kquamme94 No one from Peavey has replied...... so much for good support.
dude, give them some time. usually, it takes more than 1 day to get to things.
Originally Posted by kquamme94 thesteve: It's an $80 dollar SS amp. It's not like I'm out a whole bunch. I work to pay for everything I purchase, so I do realize $80 is a chunk of change, but in the whole spectrum of everything, it's not a big deal. Worse case scenario is that I end up replacing the loadspeaker in the peavey amp skeleton and use it as a cab for my Laney 1x12 that I am getting. It's not that I don't have electrical knowledge, because I have soldered another switch to the board to allow me to do a few things with the headphone jack, it's just I didn't get to study the workings of the channel switch before I mangled it up.
and how did you 'mangle'/'destroy' the switch? what kind of switch was it? momentary push-button? on/off toggle pushbutton? or, an actual switch? also, how many leads did it have?
before you do any type of modification, you want to make sure you know exactly how it is working. a section of the amp such as this would be digitally controlled. do you have any experiance with digital circuits?
can you post any pictures of the circuit board and whatever is left with the switch? that would be very helpful in solving your problem.
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tht00: still nothin from peavey...
Well I wasn't too bad at figuring out how it all worked when I had made my headphone modification but I just wasn't gentle andpatient enough. Tried to take it off in a hurry and snapped it into pieces. I decided to just dissassemble it and I am bidding on a bigger better amp on the bay.
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I'm sure Peavey can send you a schematic of your amp. With that, you can use your electrical knowledge to look at that section of the circuit and see what the switch you've butchered was doing. Then, you can find a switch that does the same thing and make a foot-pedal out of it.
Nate
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I found a schematic on the internet, but yea, trying to decode that didn't go too swell. I'm not too worried. I bid on a older but better amp and I'll think when it's all said and done I'll get it for under $30, hehe. My multi-effect pedal came today that will do what I was going to make my Peavey do. If anyone needs some stuff from the amp, other than the speaker, I'll be willing to send it to them for free. All you gotta do is pay for shipping. The transformer and switches, fuse, etc are all in excellent condition. I could even send you the whole chassis if you like. I don't have enough time in the day to work on it any longer. Running on 6hrs of sleep on average each night...
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Originally Posted by kquamme94 I found a schematic on the internet, but yea, trying to decode that didn't go too swell. I'm not too worried. I bid on a older but better amp and I'll think when it's all said and done I'll get it for under $30, hehe. My multi-effect pedal came today that will do what I was going to make my Peavey do. If anyone needs some stuff from the amp, other than the speaker, I'll be willing to send it to them for free. All you gotta do is pay for shipping. The transformer and switches, fuse, etc are all in excellent condition. I could even send you the whole chassis if you like. I don't have enough time in the day to work on it any longer. Running on 6hrs of sleep on average each night...
cool... could you post a link of the schematic? i'd like to take a look at what its got inside... some of those parts might come in handy- i'm once again looking at building a tube amp... so, i'll check to see if the transformers will be useful, along with anything else... but i'd guess that would be it. resistors are cheap... the capacitors probably don't have the proper voltage ratings... maybe a power switch?
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http://members.tripod.com/NatCade/sc...ey/rage158.gif
That's the one I found.
P.S> Are you building a Marshall 18w, Matchless, Fender Champ, or AX84 style? I really like the AX84 California Dreamer and High Octane. I wonder if anyone has made a Classic 30 copy. I really like the Classic 30's.
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go to a pawn shop and buy a footswitch you can use any type of footswitch with any type of amp. you can probably get one for like 10$