Renegade wired wrong?

[Si198328J]

Hi guys

I've been having some issues with my Renegade head for a while now! I cant get the bias above 50mV on the 6L6 side and have tried many different tubes (pre and power). I can only use the EL34 side as I can't get the volume from the 6L6 side. I'm also getting hum form the amp when not playing (guitar volume down) and feedback when I mute the strings when playing. At low volume the amp sounds fine but when cranked the tone becomes brittle and feeds back. Channel 1 has no hum or feedback issue's.

After checking the PCB the only issue I could see was that a brown wire was plugged into a red/yel socket (see attached pic)?

Si

 

[shimmilou]

Hi Si198328J,

Is your amp still under warranty? If so, a call to Egnater might be the thing to do.

 

[Keith Johns]

Hi Bud, I've taken my Renegade out of it's shell and mine is the same, Brown wire in same socket, as yours. So that ain't your problem.....Sorry.

I had a Blackstar Series One 100 that I had 18 months of crap with, Blackstar had it back 3 times and it kept coming back with the same problem, it had a strange distortion, almost like clipping, always under the sound of the guitar, and I could never get a great lead tone, everybody laughed and was no help, so I know your pain. It ended up being a bad solder joint, but by this stage I had made my mind up it had to go.....enter the Renegade.

Hope you get it sorted.

 

[bruce egnater]

The brown wire is correct so that is not the issue. Can you explain your knob settings when the feedback and other problems occur?

 

[bruce egnater]

Also, verify the slide switch next to the power inlet is set to 117, not 100.