was so proud and was trying a bunch of stuff, different speaker cabinets, different power tubes and I made the fatal mistake of forgetting to plug in a speaker...... Ya, ya I know.
I heard a pop and saw smoke. Happened before I could hit the strings on the guitar. I'm glad everything was sealed up, the 25uf 25v electrolytic cap near the bias resistor exploded. (only thing left was the 2 leads and shrapnel) Hopefully the OT is ok. I'm in the process of getting a new cap and run through the tests again. What are the chances the OT transformer is cooked? I have no experience with burned out OTs.
Thanks for the compliments and help along the way. Once I get it working again, I'll try to get some sounds bytes to you'all.