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Old 05-08-2016, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by dieseljeep View Post
I worked on a GE that looked similar, but it was SS and a GE Tonal I changer.
It had the tiny black transistors with thin metal heat sinks on them. The low AC voltage for the amp was taken from a tap on the motor winding. The owner's son, tried connecting extra speakers to improve the sound and blew the O/P transistors.
Most solid state GE's from that period used speakers with an oddball impedance (in the 24 to 32 ohm range). He likely connected 3.2 to 8 ohm speakers and I don't suspect it would last long like that. I've had stereos come in where people would connect fix speakers in parallel on a single speaker output on the amp, basically placing a short circuit across the output of the amp and killing the output stage.
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