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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 12:08:51 +0200 (MET DST)
From: David Garcia Martinez
Subject: Brown Princeton questions

Hi all

I've just purchased a brown Princeton, all original and in
extremely good condition (damn, it looks brand new!), and I have some
questions about it. Hope somebody can help a bit...

1.- I'd say the amp is brand new were it not for the fact that
somewhere along its forty years of life it has lost the tube chart
that should be inside the cabinet, so I don't know how to date it. Ok, i
got only three years, from '61 to '63, but I'd like to say "It's a
'6something brown princeton. The serial number on the chassis is P01920.
Any help?

2.- I read these amps mounted a Jensen C10R or an Oxford 10J4, but
I don't know which of these is in mine. No brand imprints on the
speaker. There's only one sticker on it saying "Approved for electrical
safety. City of Los Angeles. Department of building and safety". How can I
know whether it's a Jensen or an Oxford?

3.- The amp runs with 125 volts, so I have to use a transformer to
plug it to our 220V electrical instalations (here in Spain there ain't no
125V systems). The transformer gives 60W, but I don't know how much power
the amp consumes (it outputs 12W RMS). Are 60W enough?

4.- I also have a '75 Princeton Reverb, and I will possibly need
to link the amps together for gigs in medium-size clubs without a mixing
console to mic only one amp. I believe that this is done plugging the mic
into Hi-gain input of one of the amps and taking a cable from Low-gain
input of that same amp to the Hi-gain input of the other amp. Is that so?,
and do the volume controls work independently or one amp controls the
other?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Saludos,

David