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Re: Kustom III PA [message #22768 is a reply to message #22767]

Sun, 19 April 2015 02:48

chicagobill
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Registered: April 2003

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Welcome to the place. Not really that familiar with that model, but I assume that the power amp is a 120-130 watt model.

Is it heating up at idle or when you run it hard? If it's at idle check the bias string diodes. You may need to change them out to get the idle bias down to a cooler level.

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		Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 19 April 2015 00:02
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Sun, 19 April 2015 02:48
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Sun, 19 April 2015 06:55
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 09:20
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Mon, 20 April 2015 12:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Mon, 20 April 2015 12:41
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 09:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Tue, 21 April 2015 11:24
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Tue, 21 April 2015 13:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 14:03
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Tue, 21 April 2015 14:11
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Tue, 21 April 2015 22:42
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 22 April 2015 09:37
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Wed, 22 April 2015 13:22
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 22 April 2015 16:11
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Wed, 22 April 2015 17:29
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Thu, 23 April 2015 15:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Thu, 23 April 2015 15:32
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Thu, 23 April 2015 22:27
		Re: Kustom III PA By: chicagobill on Fri, 24 April 2015 01:10
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Fri, 24 April 2015 06:18
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Fri, 24 April 2015 16:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Sat, 25 April 2015 06:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 14 June 2015 21:05
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Sun, 14 June 2015 23:54
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Mon, 15 June 2015 06:26
		Re: Kustom III PA By: Autoharp on Wed, 17 June 2015 02:16
		Re: Kustom III PA By: stevem on Wed, 17 June 2015 06:17

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