The Heathkit SB1000 amplifier. Famous for having a smoked power transformer.
Not a kit, the Heathkit name was just a marketing "badge" applied to the AL-80A amplifier built by Ameritron of Ohio, just before the Ameritron name and catalog were sold to Martin of MFJ and moved to Mississippi.
Here's a stock shot of the front.
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Yeah, Heath was already on the ropes for the first time when this was sold around 1988 or so. They had...
Lazarus rises from the dead, becomes a tube tester. SB1000
Not a kit, the Heathkit name was just a marketing "badge" applied to the AL-80A amplifier built by Ameritron of Ohio, just before the Ameritron name and catalog were sold to Martin of MFJ and moved to Mississippi.
Here's a stock shot of the front.
![[IMG]](http://imageshack.com/a/img924/6932/O9Ilyi.jpg)
Yeah, Heath was already on the ropes for the first time when this was sold around 1988 or so. They had...
Lazarus rises from the dead, becomes a tube tester. SB1000