Hello everyone, read this: before replacing a fan, run it aside from the housing! I love the Hartke heads and open them for almost thirty years now. The chassis Mount creates a lot of vibration and acoustic amplification of the fan. If you fan is noisy, try to squish some foamy material between the fan and mounting faces.

@adamsteelproducer

Жыл бұрын

Good idea, but that only reduces sympathetic vibrations- in my case, the fan bearings had gone bad and no amount of dampening would have fixed that

Adam, You just convinced me. I have the exact same problem with the exact same amp!!! And I was going to buy a whole new amp, just for that and spend 500-1000$! Until I thought maybe there is a way to fix this by just changong the fan? and then I found your video. It looks really easy to do so i'll give it a try. The only thing is I dont know if i'll find a suitable replacement fan, but.. we'll see. Thank you anyway. You just convinced me

3:00 before 8:43 after

Cool thank you good job on videos!!!!!

Where did you get that screwdriver? I want one!

I changed out my cooling fans on my Peavey 450 Max and it no longer sounds like a hovercraft getting ready to take off.

Hey hey! Could you put up a link to which fan you bought as a replacement?!

Lol “actually pronounce the L...sold-er.” 😂

Hi I got a swr 400 working pro amp do you know what fan I could put in it? Got same problem thank you!!!

@adamsteelproducer

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Andre- sorry but I don’t know! Best things to do would be to find a schematic online that tells you the size and more importantly voltage of your fan, that should then be enough

It would have been nice if you had turned on the old fan first so we could hear what it sounded like

@adamsteelproducer

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, but the old fan had died entirely, prompting the need for the video. I guess you’ll just have to trust me that it sounded like a small chainsaw

@harryrichardson136

2 жыл бұрын

@@adamsteelproducer you did turn on the amp with the old fan on, just bought a ha550 2nd hand and the fan sounds worse!

@harryrichardson136

2 жыл бұрын

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Can I just lubricate the old one?

@adamsteelproducer

4 жыл бұрын

Not a good idea, lubricants and voltage can go wrong quickly

@DoctorBastardo

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamsteelproducer You can actually use special lubricants designed for model train engines BUT once you got your case open why not upgrade anyway. BTW I dont know if you mention it yet but Noctua , who make computer fans and are generally considered the best out there do a 24v range and publish decibel levels and RPM for all their fans.

My Ampeg Micro VR bass head has a noisy fan and it is brand new. Any ideas?

@adamsteelproducer

4 жыл бұрын

See if they all do that? Send it back for a replacement? If it’s brand new it’s covered under warranty

Me yelling at the dude: just cut wires on both fans, swap around and solder them together to reuse the plug! 🤦🏼‍♂️

@adamsteelproducer

3 жыл бұрын

This video is YEARS old at this point, and that’s exactly what I did after filming…

@Phoenix_cataclysm_in_2040

3 жыл бұрын

@@adamsteelproducer Yeah, looking at the same dilemma with my noisy Marshall AVT 150 Valvestate amp fan, although I'm thinking of getting an original fan. Don't want to ruin my amp, I love it for its awesome cleans.