Another ? for Mike Brown

marley hay · Post by **marley hay** » 14 Mar 2001 7:52 am

Mike, my mid-80's Nashville 400 has an annoying habit(recent) of cutting out,kind of the loose wire type of thing,when it's first turned on.This is an intermittant problem and always goes away after a minute or two? The Lemay page said that these amps sometimes develop this when an output transistor screw gets loose.What do you think.Thanks in advance,Marley[This message was edited by marley hay on 14 March 2001 at 07:53 AM.]

marley hay · Post by **marley hay** » 14 Mar 2001 11:44 am

marley hay · Post by **marley hay** » 15 Mar 2001 6:14 am

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 15 Mar 2001 6:22 am

Have you tightened the screw to see if that fixes it?

Most intermittant problems with Peaveys that I see here are related to the loose Molex connector where the reverb wires attach to the chassis.

marley hay · Post by **marley hay** » 15 Mar 2001 9:16 am

Jim, I am unfortunately electronically challenged.I will check the reverb connection,but will have to find the component in the schematic before I can do anything else.Thank you for your input. Marley[This message was edited by marley hay on 15 March 2001 at 09:17 AM.]

Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 15 Mar 2001 10:11 am

That could be a leaky coupling capacitor in one of the preamp stages. They will act up for a bit when turned on and can be noisy then after voltage has been on for a while it will clear up.

You'll either have to send it to Peavey or take it to a qualified tech to have that fixed as it will take a bit of troubleshooting to isolate the capacitor, if it is the problem.