Air vent on a Fender Steel King?

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Air vent on a Fender Steel King?

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Howdy All,
I grabbed this picture from a Fender Steel King posted on Reverb.com for sale in Germany.
It seems to show a (factory installed?) air vent on the top.
Has anyone seen one of these vents in the wild, or experienced overheating of their FSK without one?
Thanks for any insight.
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No Steel Kings I have seen in person and many images online have this vent. Most likely added on by a previous owner.
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Wasn't the Fender Steelking a combo amp??
Looks like they sererated the amp head and put it in an enclosure.
I could be wrong though...
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Marco Schouten wrote:Wasn't the Fender Steelking a combo amp??
Looks like they sererated the amp head and put it in an enclosure.
I could be wrong though...
It is a combo amp. Here is the Reverb listing for the amp.

https://reverb.com/item/24329958-fender-steelking?bk=
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Is Germany's electricity 60 cycle, 110 volt? May have something to do with that????
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Danny Letz wrote:Is Germany's electricity 60 cycle, 110 volt? May have something to do with that????
230v 50hz
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This is a 230v version Steel King (per the ad). Maybe the vents were factory installed in the 230v amps.
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That’s what I was thinking was a possibility.
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Post by Mark Theobald »

OK, thanks everybody!

We'll leave this as a minor mystery, or as suggested, a user-installed modification.

The FSK schematic for the 220 volt export version shows only a transformer change to reflect the increased input voltage. All the rest of the circuits including power transistors are unchanged.
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