The earliest guitar amp I worked on was a small Ace Tone, back in the 1970s. My neighbor bought it, not working and asked me to get it running. This was apparently from a foreign country, probably Mexico because at was rated for 230 VAC. It had two tubes, a 12AX7 and a 12AU7, that had been swapped around which caused them to not work. Once I fixed that I had to get it to work on 120VAC. I made a voltage booster by connecting two Radio Shack transformers, each having a secondary of 18VAC, back to back and boosting the 120VAC to 240VAC. It worked okay!
But I have never heard of the Ace Tone name since that time way back in the ’70s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The earliest guitar amp I worked on was a small Ace Tone, back in the 1970s. My neighbor bought it, not working and asked me to get it running. This was apparently from a foreign country, probably Mexico because at was rated for 230 VAC. It had two tubes, a 12AX7 and a 12AU7, that <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21779,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21778\/revisions\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}