[Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load

Sun Mar 2 17:16:01 2003

The real issue, may be in powering up an old amplifier that has sat idle for
several or more years. Unless it is brought up slowly on a Variac to allow the
capacitors to reform, Kapow! "Sold as is, a non-smoker, so not sure where that
slight smell of smoke is coming from."	

DBF	

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From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] Tube amps with no load
Date: Sunday, March 02, 2003 11:55 AM

No problem at all....

It's only when there's an audio signal going through the amp that there's
a problem....

Don't forget a transformer is an AC device.  The load is only reflected
back to the tube during an AC excursion.  There's no problem or
refelction with no AC, when the amplifier is at idle.

Ed K1ZOK

On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:28:03 -0600 "Steven K. Wenger" <[email protected]>
writes:
> Is it just me, or does anyone else cringe when someone on eBay writes 
> the amp's tubes light up but I have no way of testing it? There is a 
> Fisher X200 amp on eBay right now. You can actually see the amp's 
> line cord plugged into an extension cord, the tube's filaments are 
> on, and no speakers are connected. 
> 
> 

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