I'm a fan of the "Eleca EG100-R" Guitar Head. Its the only good sounding amp they produce, the speakers are horrible though.
The distortion is the best I've ever heard. Many musicians ask to use my amp over Peavey and Mesa models. Its great for Metal and Punk.
The problem I have with it though is it over heats. I know that this is the huge complaint everyone has with them.
I don't want something "better" I don't want to switch. I like having a unique amp that has good distortion and looks ugly.
Is there a way to mod it so it doesn't heat?
Could it be the housing? Or electrical?
Easy to fix? Expensive?
The distortion is the best I've ever heard. Many musicians ask to use my amp over Peavey and Mesa models. Its great for Metal and Punk.
The problem I have with it though is it over heats. I know that this is the huge complaint everyone has with them.
I don't want something "better" I don't want to switch. I like having a unique amp that has good distortion and looks ugly.
Is there a way to mod it so it doesn't heat?
Could it be the housing? Or electrical?
Easy to fix? Expensive?
Hi,
Two common methods to help here are:
- Add a fan.
- Add more heatsink.
Or both.
As for speakers, the best bang for the buck is Weber:
https://taweber.powweb.com/weber/
Cheers!
Two common methods to help here are:
- Add a fan.
- Add more heatsink.
Or both.
As for speakers, the best bang for the buck is Weber:
https://taweber.powweb.com/weber/
Cheers!
How hot does it get ?
Some amps are designed to run hot coz they have cheap heatsinks.
Silicon can go uptyo 150 degrees C before it dies.
reducing the bias might help.... is it bipolar or MOSFET? MOSFETs have to be run at higher bias currents to reduce crossover distortion and to improve thermal stability. bipolar transistors can be run at lower bias currents at the cost of a bit of crossover distortion. Peavey runs their amps with fixed bias right at cutoff with the idea that the amp is usually going to be run wide open anyway, so no one will ever notice the crossover distortion, and so most of their amps run relatively cool.
I find with my MOSFET amp designs they usually need about 20mA through the FET to get rid of cross over distortion. Thats 5mV across the 0R22 source resistor.
Take care with the trimmer tho some can be very touchy and before you know it the bias is too big and has blown the MOSFET's.
In my designs I always add a zener across the bias circuit to catch out of range bias voltages.
20mA might get rid of crossover distortion with some FETs, but not all of them. i often see them in home audio and pro audio biased for between 50 and 150mA it depends on the FET, there was a thread here a while back about the proper bias for FETs and what effect it has on thermal stability. for vertical FETS, the Vgs(on) voltage has a negative tempco at low currents, then tere's a point where the tempco is zero, then above that current the tempco is positive. the desirable bias point is with the idle current at or above the zero tempco point. for a lot of FETs, this current is about 2A, but there are some where it's lower. lateral FETs have the zero point at very low currents, so they don't need temperature compensation...
You are converting it to a whole different amp if you convert to MOSFET.
All your operating parameters will have to be changed and then even after
all that, it will still sound different than the original. I think the output stage
usully has the largest effect on final sound.
See if you can find a part number on the current output device?
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