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    This document provides details about a 1964 Echolette BS40 bass amplifier, including: - It uses 3x ECC808 preamp tubes and 2x EL34 power tubes, and can be used for bass or guitar. - Early models had a black front panel and white back, later were all black. - Modifications include replacing leaky capacitors and fixing rattling tube sockets and circuit board. - Specifications include a 400mA HT fuse, 50uF filter capacitor, and speaker outputs for 4 and 16 ohms.

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    Echolette BS40 1964

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    This document provides details about a 1964 Echolette BS40 bass amplifier, including: - It uses 3x ECC808 preamp tubes and 2x EL34 power tubes, and can be used for bass or guitar. - Early models had a black front panel and white back, later were all black. - Modifications include replacing leaky capacitors and fixing rattling tube sockets and circuit board. - Specifications include a 400mA HT fuse, 50uF filter capacitor, and speaker outputs for 4 and 16 ohms.

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    This document provides details about a 1964 Echolette BS40 bass amplifier, including: - It uses 3x ECC808 preamp tubes and 2x EL34 power tubes, and can be used for bass or guitar. - Early models had a black front panel and white back, later were all black. - Modifications include replacing leaky capacitors and fixing rattling tube sockets and circuit board. - Specifications include a 400mA HT fuse, 50uF filter capacitor, and speaker outputs for 4 and 16 ohms.

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    Echolette BS40 1964

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    This document provides details about a 1964 Echolette BS40 bass amplifier, including: - It uses 3x ECC808 preamp tubes and 2x EL34 power tubes, and can be used for bass or guitar. - Early models had a black front panel and white back, later were all black. - Modifications include replacing leaky capacitors and fixing rattling tube sockets and circuit board. - Specifications include a 400mA HT fuse, 50uF filter capacitor, and speaker outputs for 4 and 16 ohms.

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    Echolette BS40 1964

    This is a 1964 3x ECC808/ 2x


    EL34 Klemt Echolette BS40
    bass amp. Though it's circuit is
    somehow like the early
    Bassman (and early JTM-45
    Marshalls) it can also be used
    as a guitar amp (and sounds
    pretty good). The early ones
    have a black tolex front and
    white tolex on the back. Later
    ones are all black. I've seen
    white skirted knobs(the white
    tolex ones)and black skirted
    knobs (the all black tolex ones)
    and big golden metal knobs
    (later or 2nd models). The
    lower second input shows
    some signs of an early input
    conversion to a 5-pin din
    connector. Which made the
    amp hum due to bad
    grounding.
    2x Philips EL34 and 3x
    Telefunken ECC808. Now the ECC808 is a tube with a different pin-out and a different filament demand than the 12AX7 series of tubes, so you can't swap
    them. First tube is for both channels, the second for some more gain and the third (unshielded) is the Phase Inverter. Now on the back you see some modding
    done
    A closer look at the circuit board. These German caps are prone to leaking and should be replaced at all time. Some electrolyt capacitors have a date code. The
    oldest I found was 9.63 (September 1963) the youngest 5.64 (May 1964) A nice way to date these amps, the serial number won't help. At least I didn't find no
    info on the Echolette serial numbers
    2x Philips EL34 and 3x Telefunken ECC808. Now the ECC808 is a tube with a different pin-out and a different filament demand than the 12AX7 series of
    tubes, so you can't swap them. First tube is for both channels, the second for some more gain and the third (unshielded) is the Phase Inverter. Now on the back
    you see some modding.
    On the right side: two trim pots. The left one to balance bias, the right one to level bias. Very convenient, you don't necessarily need matched tubes. These type
    of trimmers are known to fail: they should be replaced. Now though these amps are well build, it has some draw backs. First of all the cicuit board rattles. On
    the power tube side Echolette should have used more bolts. On the front side (not seen here) no bolts are used but it's hold in place by some bended metal strips.
    I filled the spaces with strips of tolex to get rid of the rattling. Second draw back: the tube sockets rattle due to the way they are constructed. Some super glue
    took care of that. The bad thing is that both EL34 now also suffer from rattling. (The old EL34 are very prone to rattling anyway
    At the right side the black block bridge rectifier B380C600. No 400mA HT (HV) fuse and no varistor as used in the BS40 2nd
    New caps and some circuit board repair
    There was no HT fuse in this amp (like in the later BS40 models) so I added a 400mA slow blow fuse
    For some more filtering (better bass handling) I put in a brandnew F&T 50uF/50uF 600V can capacitor. (originaly a 32uf/32uf/500V was installed)
    A new fuseholder and a 250V 0.8A slow blow fuse for safe operation.
    The pegel pot is a kind of master volume. I leave it at max. This pegel influences the biascurrent when it is turned around. Holding it still bias comes back to the
    normal values. A 5 Ohm/20 Ohm speaker impedance switch which is ok for 4 and 16 Ohms
    2x 12" Isophon P30/37A bass drivers, each about 30 Watts and 4 Ohm. After all these years still in wonderful working condition

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