anyone know much about guitar amps . . . ?

[Cory]

anyone know much about guitar amps . . . my marshall is sparking and smoking . . .  
my fiance spilt sugary tea all over it and has gotten on the circuit board. cleaned it all off as its not the first time its happened, had it running for about 10 mins then sparks started to fly.

i have taken a picture of the offending component, will post picture shortly

[gtiballs61]

Maybe it dont like sugar in tea

[mcgee9t2]

Maybe it dont like sugar in tea

was it all compleatly dry when you turned it back on? and by compleatly dry i mean left for a good few days?

[Cory]

to be fair it wasn't. spent a good couple hours with tissues, cotton buds and then a hair dryer (on cold)

[mcgee9t2]

hmm if its had that i cant see any reason it should still be wet. unless the moisture was absorbed by any component. what was it that started to spark

[J_V_Dub]

my marshall is sparking and smoking...

Sounds about right

[Jack3559]

What model is it?

[Cory]

the amp is an AVT150
this is a picture of the amp . . .



you can see the marks from the sparking white plug . . .

and a close up . . .

[the_stink]

well im sure tea isnt good for it  it could be that it hadnt dried out properly, how old is it? i had a marshal HDFX100 head years ago and that went bang one day at practise, smelt like fireworks but that was due to the age and dsut clogging up parts i think 

[_Adam_]

the white plug looks like a generic power supply for any additional component. therefore if two of the terminals made contact (with tea) it's shorted the circuit. try cleaning away all the soot and make sure there's no liquid on the reverse of the board,