Sudden Guitar Amp Failiure


Hey all , new here , i'll try to keep it short :Old Marshall hybrid amp, worked until I screwed up by using contact cleaner on the tube socket and didn't wait enough , switched the amp on , very loud hum with no guitar signal (around 120Hz I believe), whether the guitar's plugged in or not , turning the knobs is useless , dead LED lights.

Quickly turned it off when I noticed an unusual smell with a bit of "innocent" smoke coming from the back , near the x-former.

My guess is that the contact cleaner caused a short from the tube socket to the nearby coupling caps and overloaded the rest of them , though the fuses look fine , the tranny is obviously fine , and there are no burn marks, caps look fine but ill replace them anyway,

could it be something else?




raw_raider

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Makes sense , makes sense

I just detected a couple of wobbly caps , 2200uF 50v , in the power module circuit , something just screams "capacitors" , but at this point who knows 

Thanks anyway