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Well here's the idea installed, fwiw. Thanks everyone for the input. As a bonus, the Speaker On/Off toggle is now blocked by the right angle connector so it would be quite difficult to accidentally bump it on anyway.

Yep, more resistance maybe warranted in some cases. For the Mark5 25 head I'm thinking 8ohms is plenty as it's just an emergency override measure - and that's all the amp would expect to see anyway.

(y) Good to know - thanks. No excuse for not including it on all Mesa heads.

Yep, "Put The Load Right On Me" - Planning to mount the resister inside the head with a short bit of speaker cable to a 1/4" right angle plug. Using a speaker? Just temporarily unplug the resistor load. A slightly clunky solution but seems like it would be effective safety measure.

Mesa Mark5 25 Head. Manual says "Never run the amp without a load" - sure, of course. At risk of overstating the obvious, this is a concern for ANY amp head because by definition there is no speaker naturally attached like you would have in a combo. On the M5:25, to use the CabClone out without...