Two Tubes - 45 Watts
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I should have included a little background but I was at work when I thought of this today.
Here's the deal: I have been really curious about how EL3b's would sound in the Mark V but I only have two at the moment. So instaed of throwing down $60 to $70 dollars I was thinking about taking out all the 6L6's and putting the two EL34B's in the inner two sockets. But before I tried it I wanted to check with you guys and see if you thought it would be safe to do this while keeping the amp in 45Watts only.
Here's the deal: I have been really curious about how EL3b's would sound in the Mark V but I only have two at the moment. So instaed of throwing down $60 to $70 dollars I was thinking about taking out all the 6L6's and putting the two EL34B's in the inner two sockets. But before I tried it I wanted to check with you guys and see if you thought it would be safe to do this while keeping the amp in 45Watts only.
boogieman60
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The MKV is a 4 tube amp...would you take 1/2 of your plug wires off your car to see how slow it goes??? To be on the safe side...I wouln't risk a 2400 amp to save 80 bucks...
True. I probably will just end up ordering the other two tubes. Although I can't help but think that it shouldn't damage the amp in any way if when you run the amp in 45 Watts, it turns off the outter two tubes anyways.
thunda1216
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won't hurt it, but you have change your ohms selector to 1/2 the value you usually use (if you run an 8 ohm cab, set the amp to the 4 ohm setting).
phyrexia
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i did what you are saying. you can also put the two tubes in the positions nearest to the rectifier tube and run the amp in 10w mode. i have a pair of rca 6V6s that i do this with from time to time.
i dont worry about changing the output load, since you are normally running a mismatch somewhere in the amp if you are using different wattage settings. but if you plan to use only 45 or only 10 then you can plug an 8 ohm load into your 4 ohm output.
i dont worry about changing the output load, since you are normally running a mismatch somewhere in the amp if you are using different wattage settings. but if you plan to use only 45 or only 10 then you can plug an 8 ohm load into your 4 ohm output.
