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My 300 Watt Fender

meh 2/2003
 

The Fender 300 and 400 PS, along with the Ampeg SVT, were the pinacle of guitar amplifier excess. Here is my newly acquired 300 PS Fender. Despite having all those controls, inclusing a five-band equalizer, there are no solid state components inside except for power supply diodes, and one clipping diode used by the cheesy distortion circuit.

Front

This amp was also built using combined point-to-point and tagboard construction - not a PCB to be found anywhere. It must've taken a long time to wire up one of these bad boys!

Guts

I found a schematic for this amp in Darr, of all places.

Here are some images of the insides and outsides.

Front view
 
A larger version of the front view
Top view
 
The top view, showing the three handles and two large vents.
Chassis
 
The chassis, top view
PT
 
The mongo power transformer
660
 
"660 watts"
Outputs
 
The four 6550 output tubes and 6V6GT(!) driver
Guts
 
The chassis, internal view.
Caps
 
The monster filter caps
Tagboard
 
The oversized tagboard

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