1980 Hylight DR103

HIWATT amps from the Hylight Electronics era

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1980 Hylight DR103

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Hey Folks,

I started a new thread for this amp. It's a 1980 Hylight DR103 that is a turret board amp but has features from the PCB amps (line in and chassis).

Here are links to the photos:

http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0265.jpg
http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0266.jpg
http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0267.jpg
http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0268.jpg
http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0270.jpg
http://www.tonicamps.com/de_photos/IMG_0271.jpg

It has a few blemishes in that it had a half power switch added at some point, and a few components have been replaced. It looks as thought 3 of the cap cans are starting to bulge, so time to order a few.

This is a bit of an oddball amp, but still a Hylight Hiwatt. The innards are much cleaner than my 77 Sound City Tour Series (not the SMF).
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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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Looks real nice! :D
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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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That is a cool transitional amp. There was lots of change going on like plans in the works to change to PC boards. The chassis is like you would find on a later PC board amp, yet it still has Turret board construction. This would imply that PA heads were discontinued as chassis changes would not allow for PA use.

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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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The inspection date on this one is 31-1-80, or January 31, 1980. So PCBs were in the plans for soon hereafter, or was it at the same time? IDK.
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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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Hi

In the picture 0271, is the 5 blue things are Caps ? Are they what you call Caps ?
I have the same amp...1983. Just order 2 kits of all valves (EH & JJ) to hear the difference..ECC81, ECC83, EL34..not sur if I have the Bias to be adjust on this amp and not sur what are the caps.

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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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Yes, the blue cans are capacitors, the ones replaced during a "re-cap."

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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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Mark,

I have received the tubes from Amplified Parts today. And sounds good but I think I prefere the JJ's,(already in)
4 X EL34 EH (Electro Harmonix)
3 X ECC83 EH
1 X ECC81 EH (valve 4)

Almost no more noise without the Guitare pluged in. Sounds more normal to me...Inside the amp, it was 4 X ECC83. (2 Mullard, 1 JJ and 1 no name) Is It make a big difference without an ECC81 ??


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Re: 1980 Hylight DR103

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The difference between an 83 and 81 is small but noticeable (more so if you're playing loud and clean). Feel free to use whichever one sounds best to you. :D

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