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Wow, Belles 350a goes nuclear



So I was just listening to my rig, and noticed flashing/arcing from inside the cabinet...... Holy COW!!! My Belles 350a ref. sounded and looked like someone was TIG welding inside it. I've read about Belles amps doing something like this, but thought those incidents were "oddities". I guess I was wrong. Probably took 10-15 seconds for me to jerk the power cord, it was burning and arcing the entire time!!! The fuse didn't blow???
Burnt electrical smell, and soot from the burned pcb throughout the room and house. Amazingly, nothing else in the system was damaged.
Belles uses a 15a slo-blo, but it didn't protect anything in this case...


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Topic - Wow, Belles 350a goes nuclear - Rikkitik 11:45:59 10/17/19 (52)

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