Of you don't have any experience soldering to PCB, then you can damage/lift a copper trace real fast and make things worse.Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 5 Suggested Answers While there are good mods out there, they aren't the easiest amps to fix and repair because everything is PCB mount with ribbon cables connecting PCBs. There is a tone of information online, both for tweaks and mods and just general discussion, if you search throughout the Google-verse. While often maligned (the More Drive tone has never been loved), it is a solid, versatile workhorse of an amp, and is one of Fender's most popular modern models (if not the most popular) for good reason. Like incandescent lightbulbs, tubes are highly inefficient and dissipate a lot of their power as heat. But the amplifier's output to the speaker is 40 watts. The "180 Watts" listed on the backplate of the amp is the amps power consumption, the amount of power it is using up from the wall outlet. The current model is the Hot Rod Deluxe III, which tweaked some long-standing complaints about the circuit.
The first letter refers to the year, and the second letter refers to the month of manufacture.
These letters are the production date code for the amplifier. Good luck reading some of the hand written ones. The last line will have 2 letters of the alphabet either printed or written by hand. The sticker is a Black and Silver label, which contains several lines for "sign-offs" at the completion of sound and electrical tests, where applicable. This code is located on the "QA" (Quality Assurance) sticker, which may be found on the back of the amp chassis. If you can describe the issues, we may be able to help.Įdit: I did find this to help with dating:Īll Fender amplifiers, manufactured after 1989 include a date code on the amplifier. This guy even has HRD specific "fix and mod" kits on eBay. There are simple fixes that anyone can do, but there's also a lot of voltage in there that can't kill you.Įdit: If you want to learn there are definitely books and sites to recommend.
If you've never worked on a tube amp before, please don't do this. Its giving me some issues and I'd love to figure out the model so I can find some documentation on it before I start trying to take it apart and fix it. I'd call Fender with the serial number and get it directly from the horses mouth. If you are looking at the speaker wattage that is the maximum that speaker can handle. Fender made the Hot Rod Deluxe with Eminence Legend speakers between 1995-2010, so if it's an original speaker, that's the range.
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