Wow I'm supprised no one has any info on this amp?

Anyhow I got a 12VDC 1500mA power adapter yesterday and its up and running again. Although theres a slight hum or buzz going on like a bad earth.
It does run without the batteries in there so thats cool. If you haven't seen one of these the way its design is quite cool. They've used connectors for a few things onto the circuit board.
Both the input jacks and the headphone jack have these and can be unconnected from the board.

I've removed both the front and back inputs as they had plastic threads and had both stripped. I'm not sure how these were wired but they both look like stereo inputs (well they have 9 lugs) the back one is wired to the front one and the front one has 2 wires going to the circuit board. Not sure if there is some switching in there or not.
heres how its wired


                 Rear input                                                        Front Input

Anyone know whats going on here?

I've just replaced the front one with a new mono input and it seems to be working okay.

Its actually quite loud. More than enough for our 1 bedroom flat. I could see how cool it would be with the batteries in it.
Its built in distortion leaves a bit to be desired, not to my taste anyhow. But with a overdrive or distortion pedal in front of it, it sounds okay.

So after a few days trolling the net I happened across Jim McBride's www.bottle-o-blues.com

Jim makes the bottle-o-blues harmonica microphone. He all so sells the Pignose Hog 20. Jim helpful told me that the power supply that he has for the pignose is a 12v 1500mA one.

So tommorow I'll go and get one and see if I can get my Pignose going.

Also having had a closer look at it I think it should run without the batteries in it, so thats cool. Its actually a neat little amp the chassis once unscrewed from the cabinet comes out totally leaving the cabinet with only the speaker in it. So it'd be an easy amp to completly replace the amp with something else and just hook up the speaker.

I'd still be greatful for any more info about this amp. A manual or Schematic.

Cheers
mike

Hi there,

This is my first post here so firstly hello.

I've just scored a used Pignose Hog 20 amp. I got it for $20 but I not sure its not working. It all looks good. I'd say the batteries are toast from lack of use. But I'm not sure of what kind of power adaptor to get it's 12VDC but I don't know the mA rating. And also whether I can run it without the batteries in it. I would like to get it going before I spend $50-60 on 2 new batteries for it.

So I guess my question is, is there anyone on here that has experience with this little amp, a copy of the manual and perhaps a schematic.

cheers
mike