No Sound, hum, or hiss from SLO Clone

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versital
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No Sound, hum, or hiss from SLO Clone

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I just finished 1 of 2 SLO builds and I cant get any sound whatsoever. I'm following the Turret layout floating around out there, I didn't wire Pin 1 & 8 on the power tubes for the Bias probe but instead together to ground like a Marshall. I made some mistakes with the Filter caps polarity but I have since repaired. So far I have replaced the Filter caps, the 47nf coupler caps to Grids, the OT, the Choke, I checked the Tubes in my other jcm800 build and they work fine. I also swapped out #4 LDR. When I plug a out from the SEND to another amp I get the pre-amp sound and the channel switching works OK, I checked all the caps with a cap tester and they all ok and also resistors including the screen and grids. I would assume if I had a pre-amp or power amp signal problem I would still hear a hiss or pop on my speakers when switching the power toggle. I also checked the speakers and the output jacks. The power supply is generating proper power on the primary. The tubes light up fine and glow, no fuses blown, also I can hear the tubes buzzing subtly when I play guitar. Any ideas to what I'm missing here to why I'm not getting any output????
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David Root
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Re: No Sound, hum, or hiss from SLO Clone

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How many power tubes?
scottlhall
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Re: No Sound, hum, or hiss from SLO Clone

Post by scottlhall »

Check your voltages (carefully, read up on the dangers first)
Double check your wiring (I had no sound on the gain channel of my SLO clone and I had forgotten to wire it up).
Tedious I know but tracing the wiring out with the schematic at hand can catch mistakes.
SkinPimp
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Re: No Sound, hum, or hiss from SLO Clone

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I built A SloClone and found a few Errors on the Turret Layout . I designed my own PS board so i'm no use there . However, one thing I remember running into was I placed one of the B+ wires on the wrong Turret. This was Under the board so it took me a while to find it. I will look at everything tomorrow and see what I wrote down ..

Here are a couple shots of my build for now . It may or may not help .

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[IMG:1024:768]http://i734.photobucket.com/albums/ww34 ... 045029.jpg[/img]
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