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    Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Hey all, got a question.

    I have a Fender stage/112 amp that I'm going to attempt to repair myself. (Should be easy)

    Ok, my amp has sounded fairly crapped out, noisy, out of sorts for some time.
    I decide to take 'er apart for a thorough inner cleaning & tuner "spraydown".
    When looking at the circuit board, I see 2 resistor/diode (or something) side by side thingy-ma-jigs, which appear to be "Fried to a crisp"
    Don't know why, or when exactly, but I did do a gig (inside) during a nasty lightning storm once, & the god's hit really close & I could feel the tingling through the strings. (yep, the beer was cold too)

    Anyhow, I was wondering if I were to take a few pics of what I see, & post 'em in hope that someone might tell me what they are, where I may get them, & what do you think the poss. cause was?
    It might have happened some other time, or an on-going thing, not sure.

    But, I would like to fixer up & get it running again. (It's a decent practice amp)

    Any help, greatly appreciated!

    Twangy.................

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Pictures would be great.

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Quote Originally Posted by ziess View Post
    Pictures would be great.
    Great!, I took these 5 min.s ago.
    Tried to give overall, & zoom in a bit.
    Here we go





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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Wow...TOASTY.

    According to the schematic, those are 47ohm/5W resistors off the emitters of the transistors Q1 and Q2. I don't know a whole lot about transistors, though, so I can't give any more information other than what I read on the schematic.

    Chances are the solder pads are also toast, so there will likely need to be some wired jumper connections in there for the fix.
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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Aside from those burned up resistors, it looks like all of your tubes are missing!


    Seriously, I'd clip those resistors at their leads, leaving long anough leads to solder to, check the leads for continuity to the next component, and if it's fine, solder new resistors in their place.

    Of course, that doen't solve why the burned up in the first place!

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    Aside from those burned up resistors, it looks like all of your tubes are missing!

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    They are 47 ohm 2 watt resistors. I would check and make sure that c49 is not shorted.

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Thank you for the replies, this will give me a good start.

    Yep, lost my tubes somewhere, for now..........:)

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Quote Originally Posted by Twangy Tele View Post
    Thank you for the replies, this will give me a good start.

    Yep, lost my tubes somewhere, for now..........:)
    Did you sort that out.

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    Re: Fender Stage 112 internal help? (Need a doc)

    Quote Originally Posted by Craigmacdonald View Post
    Did you sort that out.
    No reply in over 15 years. One might think a solution has been found by now.
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