Vox Amp Code Stamped On
These codes are for amps with the serial number. 1970-1989 -Most amps do not have a date code stamped on the tube location chart. Therefore, if you have a push-pull pot, your amp is 1974 or newer. A push-pull pot was added to some amps in 1974. In 1973, Fender removed the 'Tail' from the logo. A good amp tech can make these sound great.
Anyone out what i just given. Ive been looking all stars dating ac30 piggyback amp ac- 30 has the biggest change in real life. Right, serial number 1579 from 1966, guard plate in position.Vintage Vox AC30 serial number/date help. No metal guard around the valves. Click here to a purchase an NCM-029PE Vox serial plate from the North Coast.Left, serial number 902 from late 1965.
Vox Amp Full Set Of
Production seems to have been remarkably consistent. Several of it, if vox jmi or utilize serial. Full set of the vox jmi show recently and brimar. Tube is the serial number.
Number 1980 below, for instance, was in a particularly poor state, but not beyond the point of no return. Some of course had hard working lives. Those have been indicated.Probably around 700 "original circuit" Mark 2 amps with valve guards were made, starting with a serial number somewhere in the 1160s up to somewhere in the 2000s.Unsurprisingly a fair few AC100s from 1966 (and 1967) still survive - perhaps as many as 200, maybe more.
Similar transformers occur in serial no. The output transformer was mounted upside down, such that the primary leads had to be passed through holes on the upper chassis. Repaired in 19 - a new valve socket, Bulgin plug, jack plugs for speaker outs. Probably used by a Birmingham (UK) band. Information and pictures of cabs are on these pages.If anyone knows of any others, or would like his or her amplifier to be included on this page, please email me at click here for the address.Chassis no. The standard AC100 mark 2 schematic is here.
The amp is currently (25th June 2011) being tidied up and returned to working order. The main filter caps have the code XB = February 1966. The date codes of the preamp filter capacitors are unfortunately hidden, but one of the pots has AN, signifying January 1966.
My theory is that amps that were used for bass for most of their working lives always sound fuller than those used primarily for guitar. This AC100 has a huge thump. 1970 - two Mullards and two Matsushitas - are still good. The EL34s that came with the amp, presumably put in c. The wiring has been tidied up, and the output transformer remounted the right way round.
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