I have built two SEL guitar amps...one with a 6V6, another with a 6SN7GTA.
I had some strange problems with the second amp. It ate preamp tubes!
Then it burned up a resistor on one preamp tube cathode. Then a resistor started to burn on the B+ to the output transformer.
I double checked the bias on the 6SN7...no problem, running a little cold (67% dissipation by the calculations).
Then, I noticed that the pilot light was flickering!
Just a little, it may have been doing this all along. It flickered even when on standby. Is there any possibility that a bad bulb was interrupting the filaments? Causing these other issues?
It seems to be working fine now...after changing the bulb.
Faulty Bulb causing filament problems?
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