reverb tank.

[robertblake]

i have a very long old reverb tank.  i was wondering if i could just take the smaller reverb tank out of my amp and plug in the new one.  would everything sync up perfectly or would it not match?

[crochambeau]

Might work fine, might not.

Some tanks are designed around an 8 ohm load to drive the spring, others have a much higher load, 600 ohms or into the K's. Recovery/reverb output should be okay, though I think there are high and low Z versions of that as well.

Some old tanks also have a lamp in series to limit voltage to the spring transducers, I think those are typically speaker range loads (8-16 ohms).

But yeah, shouldn't harm anything to simply plug it in...

I built a copy of the Fender 6G15 tube reverb many years ago, and drove multiple reverb pans, so you might find wiring the both of them up to be even better than just one.

[robertblake]

i took it out of a tapco PA from the 80s, so it isn't that old.

[crochambeau]

Doubt it has a lamp then, those are more common in the console stereos of the 1960s.

If both tanks have RCA connectors, it's fully worth trying out.