Questions & Answers for: Marshall amp overheat

...overheat and fail, sometimes taking a few components with it. Don't worry about getting near the capacitors as long as it's unplugged, solid state amps have 'bleed resistors' in the circuit to drain ...

don't put adequate thermal conductive grease on the chip causing it to overheat. Remember this is a small practice amp, not a powerhouse. It sounds like it is going into "motorboating" as it is called

...amp would have much damage. The sequence would be that when you started driving the second unit, the feedback paths within it would fight the attempt to drive backwards and the output transistors ...

...amp and just caused your marshall to overheat/overpower and blew your output transistor. i you drop the chassis out and look at the chip on the heatsink is it blown? also check all internal and ...

...amp go on with the strum of a guitar but no sound comes ou and thall the circuit boards are ok i took them out and checked them and no hot spots or burns but the coil windings look like that block ...