[Simon]

Hey, so I decided to take some videos, thought it might be easier, let me know what I need to do next, will pick up the fuse tomorrow. Here are the videos, let me know if you are having trouble seeing them:

[Simon]

Hey Brach,

I will head to Radioshack tomorrow to see if I can get that fuse.

When I measured the 122V (AC) before, it was right after everything had blown and the amp was still plugged in.

In regards to the continuity stuff, I’ve not sure I’ve done it right, so I will explain what I did and what I saw.

With the switch in the off position, with the black multimeter lead on the outside pin of the switch and the red multimeter lead on the middle pin of the switch I got continuity. In every other configuration I tried I did not get continuity — only when the switch was in the off position and touching those two pins did I get anything.

Let me know if I did something wrong and I need to test again.

[Simon]

Hey Brach,

After doing these tests and seeing that continuity was present when touching the two leads of the multimeter together, I found that none of the above tests caused the multimeter to beep, indicating continuity was not found. There is also no continuity across the fuse, so it looks like it may be blown.

Please advise further.

Thanks so much for taking this time out of your day!

[Simon]

Thanks so much for the speedy reply, to be honest I did not expect to hear anything until Tuesday! I have attached some pictures to this post. And for what its worth, I am immensely pleased with my experience so far, I think this problem is really just the fact that I have not worked with complex (for me at least) electronics before, and likely made a mistake. Let me know if you need better pictures or different angles.

Also, what I have seen from the multimeter so far, after this event, is that touching the red lead on the multimeter (with the black lead is grounded) to each of the 3 points the switch is soldered on the board I get the following readings:

Point farthest from metal chassis: ~122V
Point in between to others: ~122V
Point closest to chassis: ~.34V (maybe this is the issue? I am out of my depth)

Here is the link to the imgur album of photos: http://imgur.com/a/8vg9N

Here is the inline

Perc. Electric Error (Simon)

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