separks wrote:I don't think you have a 16 ohm tap (in your configuration) as the Hammonds let you wire it up as either 4/8 ohm or 16 ohm.
We look forward to the pics! BTW, I wonder what the origins of the term "fire up" are? :)
Shannon
Shannon, are you sure that i don't have a 16Ohm tap on my 1650E? From the schematic on the bottom of this page
http://www.hammondmfg.com/1608.htm it looks like the green wire is a 16Ohm tap.
For whatever it's worth i have the black (ground) wire on the 1650E going to J2/J5-3 (where the blk/ylw on the 1650F goes). I have the black/green (8ohm tap) going to J2/J4-3 (where the yellow on the 1650F goes). I have the black/red (4ohm) and green (16ohm?) wires un-connected, floating in electron space along with the CT for the filaments....none of them go anyplace.
However, i was thinking that i could use the 16Ohm tap to go to J2/J4-3 location for my feedback so that it would no longer be floating around in no-where land, and then i could hook my 8ohm tap right up to the output jack, rather than having it bounce to pin J2/J4-3, and
then to the output socket. Does that make any sense? Frankly, I'm jsut trying to avoid having floating wires and clean up the wiring in the chassis by avoiding "bounced" connections from one place to the next.
As for the "fire-up" part, it was REMARKABLY uneventful. No snap-crackle-pop, and nothing lost it's smoke. A rewarding feeling indeed!
Thanks for the continued support.
drew*